Well about the motherboard failing, that wasn't it. After that post, the two hard drives linked to 1 molex plug to the power supply failed. So, in a flash of inspiration I disconnected both drives from the power supply and bingo, nothing appeared to be failing. So tonight I swapped my old but trusty Antec Truepower 480 and replaced the shitty generic 500w that this computer came with and bingo, my drives all appeared.
Next computer that I get will have a trustworthy PSU, that's for sure. Can't have enough as backup. Unlike the company that I work for, the IT department goes through PSUs like toilet paper. Once he bought 2, 1 to replace and 1 for backup, well, turns out he needed to use both when they arrived because the other PSUs were failing. Granted a PSU of good quality > $80, he bought the generic PSUs which were < $40. But the failure rate is much greater...
Yesterday I went to help a colleague move bricks. I don't know why I was so kind. The colleague is new to the company, and she and her family (and bf) lives in a newly bought place, and they are getting a retaining wall built in the back of their house. There's a tennis court and a swimming pool as well. They had 13 pallets of bricks, each brick is around 20 kg, and they've moved a bit before we helped yesterday. Well, we moved 4 pallets yesterday, leaving 7-8 pallets behind, and I have sore back. I'll probably try not to stand and sit too much tomorrow... Standing all day or sitting all day... probably standing all day is better. Getting old :P
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Random pics from my phone
This week I was stuck in traffic for 1 extra hour. For about 1km. So it's around 16 meters per minute. That's 4 car lengths in a minute. It was like a car park. And there were helicopters flying too.
And I had two passengers in the car too. Needless to say it wasn't fun.
However, I did rock past the point of accident. It wasn't a pretty sight.
This was at lunch some time ago.
A Kookaburra vs Magpie. Over a scrap of food.
The Magpie flew away cos he's a bit of an opportunist.
Colleagues trying to feed the Kookaburra.
And I had two passengers in the car too. Needless to say it wasn't fun.However, I did rock past the point of accident. It wasn't a pretty sight.
This was at lunch some time ago.
A Kookaburra vs Magpie. Over a scrap of food.
The Magpie flew away cos he's a bit of an opportunist.
Colleagues trying to feed the Kookaburra.
Camera on the phone is a bit blurry. Oh well.
A word of warning
My bloody motherboard is failing. Since I'm the type of running a computer 24/7 it's a good indication of whether or not a motherboard is good. Or maybe I'm just unlucky.
The problem first happened a month or two ago. One (then two) of my hard drives started to stop working. I thought, great, all that stuff died. But then I moved ONE of the sata ports to another one, and they worked. Amazing. So the sata port on the motherboard was to blame.
The same thing happened again today. It's another drive this time. The newest drive in this computer. I didn't think the MTBF for hdd was less than 1 year, so I was really pissed off. So I opened up the case, and swapped a sata cable. Well, I swapped it back into the one I had swapped it out of first time (in the previous paragraph). The hard drive started the 'ticking' sound... meaning that sata port is truly stuffed. So I powered down, and swapped that cable into another 1 out of the other 3. And lo and behold, it works. So out of the 8 sata ports I have, 4 are still fine after a year, 2 have died, and 2 I haven't tried (because they were purple in color, and I think have a different speed setting?). Damn.
I don't wanna upgrade my computer till the i7 is mainstream and cheap.... Oh well.
Apart from that, nothing else to report. The world is going to crap, and well... my world isn't getting any better :P.
The problem first happened a month or two ago. One (then two) of my hard drives started to stop working. I thought, great, all that stuff died. But then I moved ONE of the sata ports to another one, and they worked. Amazing. So the sata port on the motherboard was to blame.
The same thing happened again today. It's another drive this time. The newest drive in this computer. I didn't think the MTBF for hdd was less than 1 year, so I was really pissed off. So I opened up the case, and swapped a sata cable. Well, I swapped it back into the one I had swapped it out of first time (in the previous paragraph). The hard drive started the 'ticking' sound... meaning that sata port is truly stuffed. So I powered down, and swapped that cable into another 1 out of the other 3. And lo and behold, it works. So out of the 8 sata ports I have, 4 are still fine after a year, 2 have died, and 2 I haven't tried (because they were purple in color, and I think have a different speed setting?). Damn.
I don't wanna upgrade my computer till the i7 is mainstream and cheap.... Oh well.
Apart from that, nothing else to report. The world is going to crap, and well... my world isn't getting any better :P.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Things I watch
It's the new season of TV... So I've been watching quite a few things.
US:
Eleventh Hour
Fringe
Life on Mars
Knight Rider
Sanctuary
The Ex List
The Mentalist
The Office
The Simpsons
UK:
Merlin
Japan:
Soul Eater <-- My favourite.
Yozakura Quartet
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Kannagi
Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter
Kyou no Go no Ni
Skip Beat
Yawakaa Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan
Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka
Toradora
Hyakko
Detroit Metal City
Clannad ~After Story~
As you can see, I'm quite busy when I get back home, with all the stuff that's available to watch >:D
US:
Eleventh Hour
Fringe
Life on Mars
Knight Rider
Sanctuary
The Ex List
The Mentalist
The Office
The Simpsons
UK:
Merlin
Japan:
Soul Eater <-- My favourite.
Yozakura Quartet
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Kannagi
Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter
Kyou no Go no Ni
Skip Beat
Yawakaa Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan
Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka
Toradora
Hyakko
Detroit Metal City
Clannad ~After Story~
As you can see, I'm quite busy when I get back home, with all the stuff that's available to watch >:D
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Update
I think I got a cold... *sigh*.
I've trained a guy to be my replacement, he's doing things slowly.
I'm also being trained by the person who's leaving. Technically their last day is tomorrow, but apparently they were told to come in as well. *shrugs* that job isn't that hard... dunno what will happen.
I've trained a guy to be my replacement, he's doing things slowly.
I'm also being trained by the person who's leaving. Technically their last day is tomorrow, but apparently they were told to come in as well. *shrugs* that job isn't that hard... dunno what will happen.
Monday, August 11, 2008
My niece's name
English: Grace Kaylin Chiou
Chinese: 邱郁淳
And my bro can't type chinese so he drew it on his blog... it looks very very bad. :P
Hmmm....
Chinese: 邱郁淳
And my bro can't type chinese so he drew it on his blog... it looks very very bad. :P
Hmmm....
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Consumerism
It's nearly Tax time. Well, it IS tax time. Since 1st July. I'm supposed to get a raise, but that hasn't happened for 3 weeks. So it was pretty terrible. Anyways, I decided to upgrade my mobile.
The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was what I chose. It's a nice thin phone, the other phone I would have chosen was 6500 Classic, but it was bit too expensive. Samsung's U100 is also a good choice, but that was also expensive.
So I got it and it's great. I event took a few photos to compare it against my Samsung T10.
It's not as slim as the mp3 player, but it's still a heck of a phone. Runs on Symbian S40 5th Edition Feature Pack 1, and comes with 1GB built in. Has a pretty good battery life, but it's winter so the battery life isn't optimal. The Samsung T10 has 8gb of memory and I'm running it at full capacity... :P And it's got 32 hours of continous life, so when I get to and from work everyday it's about 10 hours - easily lasts the week.
Why am I showing you a phone which isn't the iPhone 3G? Cos I don't wanna lug around a huge heavy phone, that's why. I work all day, and I have something at home which isn't tiny. Sure some people may call iPhone 3G the "Jesus" phone, but it's around $800 here for 8GB. My 8GB T10 was $160, and my mobile phone was $250, and my new addition (since yesterday) was a cheap price as well. Definately less than $800.
The below is my new addition.
Yeah yeah it's only a monitor.
The below was my previous setup. 22" on the Left, 19" on the right. A wallpaper of a movie I haven't seen yet.
Replace the 19" with a 24" and what do I get? Monitor envy (from my bro).
It sure beats the iPhone 3G in terms of quality and value :D
My bro says it's a waste that it's not my main screen. 1680 x 1050 vs 1920 x 1200. I don't think it's a waste. I still can operate on the right side of my desk if I want to, but the monitor's buttons are on the different side. FP222W has the power button on the LEFT of the monitor, and FP241W has the buttons on the RIGHT of the monitor. If I changed my layout, the both buttons will be in the MIDDLE. Which will be a pain of the ass to turn on and off every time.
Ahh I love my toys :P
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Charity work
So two days ago I was upstairs at work because our computer network can't print, and the IT guy happened to be away. So my reputation preceeds me as the guy who can fix IT problems when the IT guy isn't around. So I go up with my colleague, and we get into the IT room and try to figure out what computer needs to be fixed so things can be printed... well I got into the IT room (which was locked) by jiggling a key I have in my posession... needless to say I couldn't fix the problem, but we managed to call the IT guy, he was having an x-ray so we managed to contact him after. Well he managed to fix it didn't he... just by remotely connecting it. But meanwhile I was out in the area with my colleague asking if he can print or not, and he could... and then the boss comes out.
She says that I should go, along with my colleague, to the company's charity fundraising sale this saturday.
My colleague was so intently concentrating on his printing that he didn't hear her comment, and I gave him a nudge and he was like 'what?'. She repeated the sentence and joked that he pretended not to hear it so he wouldn't have to go, but he wasn't going to go anyways.
Well I asked my mum should I go, and she said yes, so I decided to go.
So another colleague also was going, and so I picked him up from the train station and we went to the designated place. We found a parking space about 5 minutes walk from the place... there's just too much construction work going on there. The weather was fine and sunny, then it got black and dark, then started raining a little bit, and by the time we finished it was back to light skies with no rain...
9am we assembled at the point, picked up the goods, and set up the stands... There was about 5 people from the company, and we set up the stand in about 40 minutes. The 5 people became about 10, with the other charity group joining forces. I think we got the first sale at about 10:30 or something, and then things started picking up. The weather got cold pretty quickly, I was in short sleeves t-shirt then I had to put on my jacket, it was that cold. Everybody else was already wearing long sleeves. Well, we moved the stand to the middle of the street mall because it had a cover from the rain. Then I had a veggie lunch from the charity group we joined forces with - it was quite nice. Well, originally we had 50+20+20+20 bags, by the end we had about 50 bags left. So it was a good fundraising event. Nearly $2000 raised... so it was a good day for all involved. Well, if they have another fundraising effort I would certainly go for it, it was a lot of fun :)
She says that I should go, along with my colleague, to the company's charity fundraising sale this saturday.
My colleague was so intently concentrating on his printing that he didn't hear her comment, and I gave him a nudge and he was like 'what?'. She repeated the sentence and joked that he pretended not to hear it so he wouldn't have to go, but he wasn't going to go anyways.
Well I asked my mum should I go, and she said yes, so I decided to go.
So another colleague also was going, and so I picked him up from the train station and we went to the designated place. We found a parking space about 5 minutes walk from the place... there's just too much construction work going on there. The weather was fine and sunny, then it got black and dark, then started raining a little bit, and by the time we finished it was back to light skies with no rain...
9am we assembled at the point, picked up the goods, and set up the stands... There was about 5 people from the company, and we set up the stand in about 40 minutes. The 5 people became about 10, with the other charity group joining forces. I think we got the first sale at about 10:30 or something, and then things started picking up. The weather got cold pretty quickly, I was in short sleeves t-shirt then I had to put on my jacket, it was that cold. Everybody else was already wearing long sleeves. Well, we moved the stand to the middle of the street mall because it had a cover from the rain. Then I had a veggie lunch from the charity group we joined forces with - it was quite nice. Well, originally we had 50+20+20+20 bags, by the end we had about 50 bags left. So it was a good fundraising event. Nearly $2000 raised... so it was a good day for all involved. Well, if they have another fundraising effort I would certainly go for it, it was a lot of fun :)
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Another era?
Well, hopefully the guy comes tomorrow, so I can go into IPQC on Thursday...
Been waiting for him to come back to work Monday, he was sick...
Been waiting for him today, he was still sick.
He better be here tomorrow.
On other news, my friend from brissie came back from a 3.5 week long holiday with his gf... and well his big news was that he's now engaged. Good on him! It's only been like 3-4 years since they've been going out together... :P
My other bro's planning to go to Japan to work for a bit... so it might just be me left in aus, with my parents... fun fun...
I've been listening to some new songs... and two of them are quite good (imho)...
Seamo - Honey Honey feat. Ayuse Kozue.
It's a love song, and well, Seamo is quite funny (with the hammer...) I saw this song because of xxxHOLiC: Kei's ED song.
High and Mighty Color - Hot Limit.
It's a high energy song, and the girl's pretty cute :P It's a cover of TM Revolution's song...
The guy better come tomoorow... :P
Been waiting for him to come back to work Monday, he was sick...
Been waiting for him today, he was still sick.
He better be here tomorrow.
On other news, my friend from brissie came back from a 3.5 week long holiday with his gf... and well his big news was that he's now engaged. Good on him! It's only been like 3-4 years since they've been going out together... :P
My other bro's planning to go to Japan to work for a bit... so it might just be me left in aus, with my parents... fun fun...
I've been listening to some new songs... and two of them are quite good (imho)...
Seamo - Honey Honey feat. Ayuse Kozue.
It's a love song, and well, Seamo is quite funny (with the hammer...) I saw this song because of xxxHOLiC: Kei's ED song.
High and Mighty Color - Hot Limit.
It's a high energy song, and the girl's pretty cute :P It's a cover of TM Revolution's song...
The guy better come tomoorow... :P
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Nice Friday
It's been a while since I went to see a movie at the cinemas. But this one I definately had to go see on the big screen - Iron Man. It's a great movie, and since I knew the story from the comic book that we had when we were little, it made it much more enjoyable. Overall a good movie, and I found Gwyneth Paltrow to be very cute in this movie.
Why did I choose to go see the movie on friday night? Because I was shafted by my friend, who said he'll be free friday night but had to do something, so cancelled. Lucky I was already at macquarie centre with time to kill, since I told my dad I wasn't coming home for dinner. My mum went to brissie for the week just that morning too. So I went to all the big department stores to check if they got Wii Fit. None of the big stores had it. Target, Big W, Kmart... So I went to JB Hifi. Not only had they have a copy available for me, but it was at a cheaper price! $119 - bargain (when Target had it at $124, and Big W at $139. Kmart apparently had it at $119 also, but dunno about stock availibility) RRP is $149, so it's a nice savings. I put it in my car, had a Chicken Katsu Don at Asukaze (I think that's the name). For $9.90 it's a pretty filling meal. Anyways, watched the movie, then went home. Then played the Wii Fit for about 1 hour (with my bro). It's a very good game system, Nintendo really has done it's homework.
I put my MSN comment as "I got WiiFit... yay :P" and I got several guys calling me gay, and asking if I was going to get fit now. Well, I did buy it to play with, it's got several fun games in there, but exercising more than 30mins a day will really burn your muscles. And I don't think I'll turn gay anytime soon...
Today I got the car's engine oil changed, it took about 1.5 hours and cost $80. The price of oil is increasing sharply, and soon I won't be afford the petrol anymore :P And my car insurance is coming up also... *sigh* money is short nowadays...
Will keep on playing the Wii Fit everyday (if I can help it). It's good exercise really, just that we don't have a big enough living room to play in...
Why did I choose to go see the movie on friday night? Because I was shafted by my friend, who said he'll be free friday night but had to do something, so cancelled. Lucky I was already at macquarie centre with time to kill, since I told my dad I wasn't coming home for dinner. My mum went to brissie for the week just that morning too. So I went to all the big department stores to check if they got Wii Fit. None of the big stores had it. Target, Big W, Kmart... So I went to JB Hifi. Not only had they have a copy available for me, but it was at a cheaper price! $119 - bargain (when Target had it at $124, and Big W at $139. Kmart apparently had it at $119 also, but dunno about stock availibility) RRP is $149, so it's a nice savings. I put it in my car, had a Chicken Katsu Don at Asukaze (I think that's the name). For $9.90 it's a pretty filling meal. Anyways, watched the movie, then went home. Then played the Wii Fit for about 1 hour (with my bro). It's a very good game system, Nintendo really has done it's homework.
I put my MSN comment as "I got WiiFit... yay :P" and I got several guys calling me gay, and asking if I was going to get fit now. Well, I did buy it to play with, it's got several fun games in there, but exercising more than 30mins a day will really burn your muscles. And I don't think I'll turn gay anytime soon...
Today I got the car's engine oil changed, it took about 1.5 hours and cost $80. The price of oil is increasing sharply, and soon I won't be afford the petrol anymore :P And my car insurance is coming up also... *sigh* money is short nowadays...
Will keep on playing the Wii Fit everyday (if I can help it). It's good exercise really, just that we don't have a big enough living room to play in...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Newness
Well my bro was back on Sat morning (yesterday). They came over for dinner, so again I was the lonely guy at the table (everybody else had a partner...) Now it's just a waiting game for him, but he should be flying to the states in mid-May. My mum'll be going to Brissie in early May for a week. My bro will also go to bris sometime later this year (twice actually)... so everybody's going somewhere except me. Ah....
I've bought a MP3/CD headunit for my car, and installed it on friday/saturday. It's great, gave it a test drive, and it's working well. Glad to have spent the $200 on it :P I should start investing in something other than that, but hey, I don't have that special someone yet :P
Other than that... nothing really else to report. I'm training a guy to be the new warehouse supervisor, he's getting there, I still got about a month of training left for him, but that's because the warehouse guy is currently on holidays so I will fill in for him. That's pretty... ah I'm still a yo-yo afterall...
I've bought a MP3/CD headunit for my car, and installed it on friday/saturday. It's great, gave it a test drive, and it's working well. Glad to have spent the $200 on it :P I should start investing in something other than that, but hey, I don't have that special someone yet :P
Other than that... nothing really else to report. I'm training a guy to be the new warehouse supervisor, he's getting there, I still got about a month of training left for him, but that's because the warehouse guy is currently on holidays so I will fill in for him. That's pretty... ah I'm still a yo-yo afterall...
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Surprised
My bro's leaving for the US tomorrow at 1pm. Now, he didn't even know that on Thursday. They called him on Friday morning (just as he was waking up). So he's borrowing my laptop and digicam (cos his laptop doesn't have wireless, and his DSLR is too bulky...). So I charged both of them up and installed some software for the laptop. The battery (fully charged) is 3:46 mins but installing something from the USB drive drove it down to 9 minutes in about 5 minutes of usage... that's quite scary. No wonder USB drives like CD/DVDs usually have a external power adapter... But yeah, he's going to be in the states for about a week. Then head over again in mid-late May. So now I might have some place to go if I decide to tour US for a holiday. But he'll be in Minnesota. So hmm...
There's nothing else to report really, work's work, and well, I'm a yoyo. Pull here, pull there, I'll be training somebody on Monday, but I will also be receiving 20 pallets of stock on monday too. Sounds like fun huh. The warehouse is chock-a-block full, and it's going to be a task to train people and maintain the warehouse. When will I take my holiday? :P
There's nothing else to report really, work's work, and well, I'm a yoyo. Pull here, pull there, I'll be training somebody on Monday, but I will also be receiving 20 pallets of stock on monday too. Sounds like fun huh. The warehouse is chock-a-block full, and it's going to be a task to train people and maintain the warehouse. When will I take my holiday? :P
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Middle of Feb
So I thought I'll blog this evening, nothing new really, just updated my photo and job... (long time no update).
My computer has been pissing me off lately... it's been rebooting, slowing down, and today, it decided not to boot. Turns out there was corruption in the files when it reboots randomly, and lucky I was able to recover it. I think it's nearly time to retired this machine, it's been about 3 years now... (bought in 2005). But I really don't want to spend the money, so I'm still trying to maintain it. Meanwhile my friend has bought not 1, but 2 Asus eeePCs... of course it's cheaper where she is, here it's about $500 AUD...
My friend has asked me to build a computer for him, I bought all the components except the CPU, the E8400 is out of stock, nobody has it in stock apart from people who's trying to sell it for $300 or so. For that price you can almost get a Quad Core Q6600. But that's not what my friend needs. So we'll wait for it...
Anyways, I've been in this new position at my workplace for about 3 weeks now, it's quite interesting... it's more difficult in terms of checking everything when it's just me and 7 areas. It was supposed to be 2 IPQC checking the 7 areas(8 if you count the warehouse) but it's the company just screwing us around, so only one person downstairs. Which sucks.
Movies, I actually won a movie ticket to see Jumper just this week. Watched it on Tuesday. It's a good movie actually, quite interesting but I think they will either make a sequal, or start a series of it. Either way it'll be a good show I hope.
Valentines day just passed, seems like not many people that surrounds me have had anything good in that department... Why... what's going on with the world... where's the love? :P
Oh well, I still have no news about a person I'm talking to... They are going to japan next week... meh...
My computer has been pissing me off lately... it's been rebooting, slowing down, and today, it decided not to boot. Turns out there was corruption in the files when it reboots randomly, and lucky I was able to recover it. I think it's nearly time to retired this machine, it's been about 3 years now... (bought in 2005). But I really don't want to spend the money, so I'm still trying to maintain it. Meanwhile my friend has bought not 1, but 2 Asus eeePCs... of course it's cheaper where she is, here it's about $500 AUD...
My friend has asked me to build a computer for him, I bought all the components except the CPU, the E8400 is out of stock, nobody has it in stock apart from people who's trying to sell it for $300 or so. For that price you can almost get a Quad Core Q6600. But that's not what my friend needs. So we'll wait for it...
Anyways, I've been in this new position at my workplace for about 3 weeks now, it's quite interesting... it's more difficult in terms of checking everything when it's just me and 7 areas. It was supposed to be 2 IPQC checking the 7 areas(8 if you count the warehouse) but it's the company just screwing us around, so only one person downstairs. Which sucks.
Movies, I actually won a movie ticket to see Jumper just this week. Watched it on Tuesday. It's a good movie actually, quite interesting but I think they will either make a sequal, or start a series of it. Either way it'll be a good show I hope.
Valentines day just passed, seems like not many people that surrounds me have had anything good in that department... Why... what's going on with the world... where's the love? :P
Oh well, I still have no news about a person I'm talking to... They are going to japan next week... meh...
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Nearly there
Wow, another year has gone flying by. What can I say, I've been to England for 2 weeks a few weeks ago, and then back to work, and now it's the holiday till I go back to work on the 2nd. Then hopefully things will be less busy, and my job will be another job.
I need to spend around $1700 for a secondhand engine. I did a very silly thing a few nights ago, practically ruined my car's engine, now it burns a lot of oil. It sucks, but the engine was bad already when I bought it.
The post xmas sales didn't really inspire me, however I checked out Apple's site, and they have refurbished ipods for cheap, and I managed to get one for a cheap price (I think). 4GB for $99, it's the first gen nano. I could have got the 2nd gen nano for $139 (still 4GB) but right now I'll see what the first gen is like. Also ordered a ipod touch ripoff, smaller screen but still 4GB. That cost a bit more though, $149. Well, it's got touch function, that's what I want to try out.
Work these past few days was quite good, since there was practically nobody at work, and only few people there in the warehouse areas. So I got a lot of cleaning up done, and that made me feel good about the work I did. I know my warehouse staff have a lot of things to do when it's busy, but using that excuse will make the warehouse messy, and I don't like that. So when I used this time to clean up, there will be a lot of surprised people when the new year starts.
I will post my travel of England soon I guess, after new years. I have around 7GB worth of photos to process, even compressed to jpeg it's still around 2GB. that's a lot of photos. And I don't feel like processing photos... I've been there, the memories are 'cold' and 'very cold' and 'I wish I was somewhere nice and warm right now'. But overall it was a fun and expensive experience (around $4000 all up - flights, accom, food, travel, and spending). For 2 weeks... and we weren't living in anything more than 3 stars.
My friend just revealed something terrible. His friend drowned in Tasmania. I was reading the article last nite and it said 3 guys and 2 girls went to a beach and then they were in the water, and the water was strong, and pulled a guy under and he drowned. I didn't realise that my friend was actually invited to go with them (would have been 4 guys and 2 girls) and the drowned man's gf was actually somebody I had probably talked to once before. That's called scary.
Ah tired, will have a nice sleep in :P
Have a great New Year!
I need to spend around $1700 for a secondhand engine. I did a very silly thing a few nights ago, practically ruined my car's engine, now it burns a lot of oil. It sucks, but the engine was bad already when I bought it.
The post xmas sales didn't really inspire me, however I checked out Apple's site, and they have refurbished ipods for cheap, and I managed to get one for a cheap price (I think). 4GB for $99, it's the first gen nano. I could have got the 2nd gen nano for $139 (still 4GB) but right now I'll see what the first gen is like. Also ordered a ipod touch ripoff, smaller screen but still 4GB. That cost a bit more though, $149. Well, it's got touch function, that's what I want to try out.
Work these past few days was quite good, since there was practically nobody at work, and only few people there in the warehouse areas. So I got a lot of cleaning up done, and that made me feel good about the work I did. I know my warehouse staff have a lot of things to do when it's busy, but using that excuse will make the warehouse messy, and I don't like that. So when I used this time to clean up, there will be a lot of surprised people when the new year starts.
I will post my travel of England soon I guess, after new years. I have around 7GB worth of photos to process, even compressed to jpeg it's still around 2GB. that's a lot of photos. And I don't feel like processing photos... I've been there, the memories are 'cold' and 'very cold' and 'I wish I was somewhere nice and warm right now'. But overall it was a fun and expensive experience (around $4000 all up - flights, accom, food, travel, and spending). For 2 weeks... and we weren't living in anything more than 3 stars.
My friend just revealed something terrible. His friend drowned in Tasmania. I was reading the article last nite and it said 3 guys and 2 girls went to a beach and then they were in the water, and the water was strong, and pulled a guy under and he drowned. I didn't realise that my friend was actually invited to go with them (would have been 4 guys and 2 girls) and the drowned man's gf was actually somebody I had probably talked to once before. That's called scary.
Ah tired, will have a nice sleep in :P
Have a great New Year!
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Gaming time
It's been a while since I've actually gone and bought a game... And this time it was The Simpsons Game, for my Wii. The previous game was Super Paper Mario, also for the Wii.
I can say that Simpsons game is fun, but I'm pretty unco to play it, because of the camera angle that changes with you, even in 3rd person view. I'm suck in the planetarium (to defeat Jimbo) and I can get onto the space shuttle, but then always fall off that trying to get onto the bloody planets.
So, it's only a short gametime for that. However, I spent approx 2-3 hours on Super Paper Mario. It's a really fun game.
I've gotten to open the third door. Now, when you beat the second door, you will get access to the dungeon. Every 10 stages of the dungeon, you get to leave the dungeon or continue on. In my stupidity, I kept on going to 041, (100 stages in all) but died on 041. I should've quit on 040... But that'll be another weekend's playing, I'm sure.
Why did I buy the Simpsons? It was available in a gaming store called "Game" and I saw that it wasn't available till Nov 8. So I thought, cool, and bought it. Otherwise I would've gone and bought something else, like a Nokia 6300 prepaid phone because it would've been $169 due to Target having 15% off most things in their stores. $199 is cheap, but $169 is even cheaper. But I don't talk on my phone often enough to warrant a new phone, and that phone is getting a bit old. Besides, people don't get amazed by slim phones anymore, the W880i is a tiny phone, but in a big guy's hands it looks like it could snap in half.
Movies, I've watched Good Luck Chuck, License to Wed. They are different types of movies, but both are about relationships. I think Good Luck Chuck was a bit more fun for me, Jessica Alba smiles better than Mandy Moore. Also GLC has more of a gross-out quality to it... plus a lot of naughty scenes. :P Overall it's an alright movie to watch. But definately not for kids.
Work is still work, will have 2 containers next week. This is because they don't want to buy stuff in australia, so they buy it from China and ship it here. Probably save them a few cents a bottle, but then there's storage fees etc etc. Might be better off to buy here. But I'm not the purchasing officer, I'm the warehouse supervisor. So all I can do is bitch :P
I should plan for my holiday soon... *sigh*. Oh where should I go...
I could go to TW (it'll be 5 or 6 years since I've been back...) and also buy an Asus eeepc... I simply love it... cheaper than a UMPC for sure. :P or I can buy a DSLR camera... possiblities are endless... :P But I only got one or two friends in TW now... so won't be much fun :P
I could also go to Europe (specifically England and France) but the tickets would be expensive...
or I can go to USA... but with all their problems, it wouldn't be a good time to visit.
so maybe TW is the go? hmm...
Time will tell... ahhh
I can say that Simpsons game is fun, but I'm pretty unco to play it, because of the camera angle that changes with you, even in 3rd person view. I'm suck in the planetarium (to defeat Jimbo) and I can get onto the space shuttle, but then always fall off that trying to get onto the bloody planets.
So, it's only a short gametime for that. However, I spent approx 2-3 hours on Super Paper Mario. It's a really fun game.
I've gotten to open the third door. Now, when you beat the second door, you will get access to the dungeon. Every 10 stages of the dungeon, you get to leave the dungeon or continue on. In my stupidity, I kept on going to 041, (100 stages in all) but died on 041. I should've quit on 040... But that'll be another weekend's playing, I'm sure.
Why did I buy the Simpsons? It was available in a gaming store called "Game" and I saw that it wasn't available till Nov 8. So I thought, cool, and bought it. Otherwise I would've gone and bought something else, like a Nokia 6300 prepaid phone because it would've been $169 due to Target having 15% off most things in their stores. $199 is cheap, but $169 is even cheaper. But I don't talk on my phone often enough to warrant a new phone, and that phone is getting a bit old. Besides, people don't get amazed by slim phones anymore, the W880i is a tiny phone, but in a big guy's hands it looks like it could snap in half.
Movies, I've watched Good Luck Chuck, License to Wed. They are different types of movies, but both are about relationships. I think Good Luck Chuck was a bit more fun for me, Jessica Alba smiles better than Mandy Moore. Also GLC has more of a gross-out quality to it... plus a lot of naughty scenes. :P Overall it's an alright movie to watch. But definately not for kids.
Work is still work, will have 2 containers next week. This is because they don't want to buy stuff in australia, so they buy it from China and ship it here. Probably save them a few cents a bottle, but then there's storage fees etc etc. Might be better off to buy here. But I'm not the purchasing officer, I'm the warehouse supervisor. So all I can do is bitch :P
I should plan for my holiday soon... *sigh*. Oh where should I go...
I could go to TW (it'll be 5 or 6 years since I've been back...) and also buy an Asus eeepc... I simply love it... cheaper than a UMPC for sure. :P or I can buy a DSLR camera... possiblities are endless... :P But I only got one or two friends in TW now... so won't be much fun :P
I could also go to Europe (specifically England and France) but the tickets would be expensive...
or I can go to USA... but with all their problems, it wouldn't be a good time to visit.
so maybe TW is the go? hmm...
Time will tell... ahhh
Saturday, October 20, 2007
So it's been a month since my last blog... Time doesn't really fly when I'm not having fun :P
Work: Same
Life: Same
However, it's been an interesting day today, first time I've been really out on a saturday...
I was still sleeping at 10am (yeah :P) Then my friend calls me and woke me and asked if I wanted to go with him to buy a set of golf clubs. Since I have nothing else better to do, I said sure. He lives a bit of distance away, so I had breakfast before he arrived.
Anyways, he didn't have lunch, so we went over to Auburn and had maccas. After that, we drove around (through my surburb) and then on to Moorebank... That's a bit of distance as well, about 20km...
The golf shop was actually on a Army Barracks. We got lost and turned around, and had to go through a security checkpoint. After going into the shop, looking around my friend bought a set of clubs @ $400, + a putter + some covers and free balls for $450... Good bargain I guess.
Anyways, we left there, then since we had nothing else better to do we went over to Eastwood for the Granny Smith festival... there wasn't that much apples there... but around 50,000 people there. A lot of people... over 10 streets of stalls... so after spending an hour milling with the crowd we left...
After that we went home... my friend had to go home and go out with his gf... so yeah, that's my day.
We've spent the time catching up and bitching about our respective works... which is fun, but depressing at the same time :P Ah well, there'll be other times to catch up
Work: Same
Life: Same
However, it's been an interesting day today, first time I've been really out on a saturday...
I was still sleeping at 10am (yeah :P) Then my friend calls me and woke me and asked if I wanted to go with him to buy a set of golf clubs. Since I have nothing else better to do, I said sure. He lives a bit of distance away, so I had breakfast before he arrived.
Anyways, he didn't have lunch, so we went over to Auburn and had maccas. After that, we drove around (through my surburb) and then on to Moorebank... That's a bit of distance as well, about 20km...
The golf shop was actually on a Army Barracks. We got lost and turned around, and had to go through a security checkpoint. After going into the shop, looking around my friend bought a set of clubs @ $400, + a putter + some covers and free balls for $450... Good bargain I guess.
Anyways, we left there, then since we had nothing else better to do we went over to Eastwood for the Granny Smith festival... there wasn't that much apples there... but around 50,000 people there. A lot of people... over 10 streets of stalls... so after spending an hour milling with the crowd we left...
After that we went home... my friend had to go home and go out with his gf... so yeah, that's my day.
We've spent the time catching up and bitching about our respective works... which is fun, but depressing at the same time :P Ah well, there'll be other times to catch up
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Here's to wasting more money
Well, I've bought a PS2. Not a new one, but one of the early models. Needless to say, it's a colleague's one. A PS2 is still a good item to play with actually, it doesn't lose out on performance with a Nintendo Wii actually, but Wii has definately more "fun" factor with certain titles. Although my bro seems to be enjoying his Guitar Hero II. Because my brother hasn't actually paid for the PS2, it's my property, and I can do anything I want with it.
Anyways, nothing new at work, some new girls, but they usually don't last 2-3 weeks... If they don't last that long here, I can't really get to know them, can I... :P
Considering selling my car sometime soon... after driving to pick up the PS2 from my colleague's place, I realise my car has severe problems in engine capacity. His area is quite hilly, and well, this car struggles on hills. I tend to have a light foot, so maybe if I really stepped on it the car will respond, but I don't add enough power then it struggles...
Holiday... damn that's a hard decision... I am saving up money for both a holiday and for my future funds. Not enough for both... *sigh*. I can go to either somewhere within Aus, but I prefer to go overseas. NZ might be nice, but it's really cold sometimes, and I don't want to be cold... S.E. Asia is also a good choice. Also Europe is a good choice, but that's expensive. Hmm... If I procrastinate anymore it'll be 2008 then I'll be stuck in this shitty job... for 2 years *sigh*. Make up my mind!! Argggg
Anyways, nothing new at work, some new girls, but they usually don't last 2-3 weeks... If they don't last that long here, I can't really get to know them, can I... :P
Considering selling my car sometime soon... after driving to pick up the PS2 from my colleague's place, I realise my car has severe problems in engine capacity. His area is quite hilly, and well, this car struggles on hills. I tend to have a light foot, so maybe if I really stepped on it the car will respond, but I don't add enough power then it struggles...
Holiday... damn that's a hard decision... I am saving up money for both a holiday and for my future funds. Not enough for both... *sigh*. I can go to either somewhere within Aus, but I prefer to go overseas. NZ might be nice, but it's really cold sometimes, and I don't want to be cold... S.E. Asia is also a good choice. Also Europe is a good choice, but that's expensive. Hmm... If I procrastinate anymore it'll be 2008 then I'll be stuck in this shitty job... for 2 years *sigh*. Make up my mind!! Argggg
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Been SICK
Damn... these past 5 days I've been sick... I got the Flu, and I had the muscular aches, tiredness, loss of appetite, and only now I feel about 90%. Hopefully with all the drinking of water and rest I've had I'll be back to normal tomorrow.
Lets see what's happened at the start of this month...
This picture shows that there was this fire at one end of a bridge that I have to use to travel to work. It's not very good, everybody was stuck in traffic for hours.
This picture shows that even though winter's not that cold, I have to clean the ice off my car in the mornings at 7am...
These 3 pics show the coffee festival I attended on the 22nd. It was actually called the "Aroma" festival. I estimate over 10,000 people packed The Rocks area. I didn't have any coffee to drink, because I'm not a coffee person. I know somebody who would love to have been there :P
This is the view of Manly beach at 4:30pm on Sunday just after going to the coffee festival... not many people there cos there was a little rain... (just look at the clouds)
The ferry ride was bloody cold, with the wind. That's probably the start of my Flu.
However, the Flu only kicked in on Wednesday, and I was sick from Wednesday till today. *sigh*
Anyways... all these photos are small because they came from my mobile phone...
Anyways, hopefully I have more stuff to blog about, but I'm just recovering and work will be horrible cos I had two days off :P
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Spending the money
hmmm... It's been so long since I blogged... almost a month aye... hmmm.
Went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Now, that's something that should be watched at the cinema... apart from it being 3 hours long... -_-"". My butt was sore from that... plus there was a little kid who ran around in my aisle... which didn't ruin it for me but well, the people next to me were quite concerned...
Overall, I would rate the movie 9/10, it's great, but the hour is too long.
One thing about it that really amazed me was the thinking about Davy Jone's locker. I didn't think about 'afterlife' in that way, but it was a really interesting idea.
After going to the movie, I went to buy a mobile fone. I didn't want to spend too much, considering it's not a priority for me to have a kick-ass fone. The reason for the new phone was because my old one's dying, without a replacement battery... So this one was <$200, which is good. Samsung E250, haven't tried a slider fone before, but now I've tried 3 types... maybe next one will be a swivel, or something which I think is good.
Ah, the inspection for the company's going to have an inspection next week, I might have to OT on monday night... *sigh*. If it passes, there's only a few more months in it for me :P If it fails, time to go on a holiday and get a new job :P Either way... it's gonna be interesting...
Went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Now, that's something that should be watched at the cinema... apart from it being 3 hours long... -_-"". My butt was sore from that... plus there was a little kid who ran around in my aisle... which didn't ruin it for me but well, the people next to me were quite concerned...
Overall, I would rate the movie 9/10, it's great, but the hour is too long.
One thing about it that really amazed me was the thinking about Davy Jone's locker. I didn't think about 'afterlife' in that way, but it was a really interesting idea.
After going to the movie, I went to buy a mobile fone. I didn't want to spend too much, considering it's not a priority for me to have a kick-ass fone. The reason for the new phone was because my old one's dying, without a replacement battery... So this one was <$200, which is good. Samsung E250, haven't tried a slider fone before, but now I've tried 3 types... maybe next one will be a swivel, or something which I think is good.
Ah, the inspection for the company's going to have an inspection next week, I might have to OT on monday night... *sigh*. If it passes, there's only a few more months in it for me :P If it fails, time to go on a holiday and get a new job :P Either way... it's gonna be interesting...
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