Friday (OBVIOUSLY)

I've been lazy and preoccupied with work and the side-tracking that comes with it, and been busy reading web comics. LOTS of it. Web comics = My own productivity killer.

Check out No Pink Ponies here or on the side bar. And vote/support it. Heck, vote/support every comic site i got right there. :D

It still bites that the very moment you get your salary, you end up losing 9/10 or 7/8 or 6/7 or 5/6 or 4/5 or 3/4 or 2/3 or 1/2 of it by paying off bills and study loans and stuff you bought by credit, either the card or verbal credit. This bites.

Munchkin & Munchkin Fu tonight. Woo.... Unnatural Axe should come in next week, that'll be Mac's and Monky Business should be in next month.

Of things

That I've been busy at work and I hardly blog or do anything on the PC at home.

So, here's the news which most of them are late anyways. Firstly, over stretched my right leg at last Sunday's training. It's much better now so should be back at kicking air by Wednesday evening.

Leaving for K.L for a 2-day seminar, I'll be back on Saturday night.

Jerome got this and I'm hooked. Hooked as in I enlisted his help to order me Munchkin Fu which is no longer in print, as far as I know. And as of 15 minutes ago, I got him to order me Munchkinf Fu 2: Monky Business, A Munchkin Level Counter, and a Munchkin Spiky Paladin Miniature.

I wanted to get Munchkin Blender but let's not get ahead now. (pun so intended.) All this was completely against my better judgment.

Got around to re-working on my skeletal casing which has been left to gather dust and rust. After a good sand down, and a polish work last night to get rid and protect it from further rust, I'm gonna get to spray paint it. At the very least, my new rig will have a place to set up.

Watched 300 last night with the clan. There was a supposedly gay scene, somewhere 2 Spartans were engaged (pun so not intended) in a conversation of witty comeback, while piling up a wall of Persian corpses. I didn't catch that, maybe its because of the fat dude with his head sticking so fucking high up that i had to sit straight up and head high just to watch the movie properly.

Anyway's, Xerces is gay. And probably a masochist. I mean, look at him. He's got enough metal to trip off the detectors in the airport. His voice was most probably edited.

It took me a while to get it, but the Spartan who doubled as a storyteller also acted in Van Helsing as the friar who was the unwilling sidekick in the mission to slay Dracula.

And for those of us who played Guild Wars, there was a lot of screenshots that looked similar to the icons the warriors have.

I'll bet the poor person behind me is just as pissed as well, at me I am sure. Anyway, the movie was great, very well moistured, meaning there was a lot of blood loss and spatter. With at least 2 beheading scenes i can remember, but I'm sure there were more. I'm pretty sure the girls enjoyed the fan service (men in barely clad clothing, exposing 6-packs and A cups).

Left the cinema feeling pretty good about the movie except for one thing, the damned head in my view. We adjourned to Jln. Song for supper and Munchkins!

9 minutes to after office hours then it's off to paint job for my skeletal casing. After that, Mac's running a D&D game tonight so it should be interesting. Be safe on the way home people.

In the end

It's like being trapped in your seat because the safety belt's stuck & the car is rolling & tumbling and the glasses are cutting here and there. All of this in slow motion. In my mind, that's what I'm going through right now.

I'm begging for darkness to come.

Olla

Because I'm too lazy to think of a proper title.

I'm suddenly under a lot of pressure.

I'm under Muse - Supermassive Black Hole audiotherapy to get right of it.

How NOT to spend your weekend

Having to wake up on a Phyne (attrib. Zack) Saturday morning & finding out that you have a colossal headache, your joints are aching all over, your throat has a burning, coarse, lump of coal stuck in there and you're fighting the urge to spontaneously heave.

I'm all much better now, thanks to a day off and a barrage of meds, which ironicly will cure me but over the course of the years will just null the effectiveness of the medicine because of the evolution of the virus's resistance to the drugs. Only thing that's still not fully cured is the cough. Yes, I've entered cough season.

Dance Inside

The title came from a line in a song i was listening to. I know I should be used to this sight, but I'm still getting my head around this. Every time the pay check comes in, it's a wonderful feeling to see the amount of money in your account... Then you realise, you have bills to pay, and in under a few clicks or a few push buttons at the ATM machine, it's down to the small, minute, kinda pathetic value that it once was just a few moments ago...

Anyway, last weekend was a major cleanup at my house. 1, was because the Chinese New Year celebration is coming up and; 2, my grandma is at my uncle's for a while so it's a good time to really clear up the place.

The dust and cobwebs from the nooks and cranny are expected, though what scared me was the tons of stuff that was kept! Seriously, how did my grandma managed to keep all those stuff? What stuff you ask? Empty bottles, containers, magazines, pencil's, you name it, it's probably there.

And I still haven't cleared up my room yet. Stuff has got to go, and more stuff to be add in. Sigh. Then there's the dust cleaning, web clearing to do.

From the house clean up, I found some stuff i didn't expect to find. Firstly, my casing. Well, it wasn't much of a suprise because it was in plain sight but i never thought of a use for it till now. Then there were roughly cut-up pieces of polycarbonate from my dormant custom case project.

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I better make those happen. Not to mention,I can't find my S-video to RCA cable. Since I got a tv so i figured i put the tv to use and have an extra monitor. That, and my new PC parts are all assembled so it needs a new body and that's where i gotta get my rig done.

2 more days to the time where every flower seller will attempt to do a roll check on Summon Conscience and make every man feeling guilty and ending up buying an obesely overpriced stalk of rose. Or some other flower. It's also the day where single people out there lament, or just go 'meh', about the lack of a significant other, where man lament on the double critical damage taken by their wallet and their financial strength. This is the day when a newly develop couple or seasoned veterans, the female of the side get to be pampered on. New dress, romantic dinner with good food and the person they love, and things that go bump in the night.

What about me? Dinner with my girl, a present for her a day earlier, and tightening my belt 3 notches more than usual til April comes.

Mantra of the day

AskANinja DVD!
Apply directly to your brain!
AskANinja DVD!
Apply directly to your brain!
AskANinja DVD!
Apply directly to your brain!

In other news, trying to play Silent Assassin (Not THAT other assassin!) game after some time. Last time I installed, it kept crashing.

Treat's

I wanted to post this yesterday but the connection here in the office lately is unstable. We pretty much narrowed it down to the router fucking up, the power keeps on tripping in a very isolated manner which i find it strange, the telephone line is fucked or the server's services is fucked.

Take your pick, I'm sure either of them are correct.

Anyway, yesterday around lunch time, a good buddy of mine Terence, passed me the 2nd hand ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. My cost, RM600. Came in its box, anti-static bag, 2 full games (Counter Strike: Condition Zero & Yager), DVD playback software and manual.

And the card gotten an upgrade in heatsink cooling. The GPU is using the Thermaltake Dual Heatpipe Cooling heatsink and that thing is HUGE! Also, the RAM chips have copper heatsinks stuck to them. Aparrently, this is built with long gaming hours in mind. I'm thinking maybe 12 hours gaming non-stop.

All I need now is to put them all together. To do that, I need a new casing. And I want a Wacom tablet. ^@^