I’ve Gone Blue

I finally got the time to write something here. The past few days have been hectic. I had a rather important document which was due on Wednesday, but my computer decided to die on me on Sunday. It wasn’t a minor problem, it died for good. Attempts at reviving it yielded no results; in fact it sped up the process of it dying. Me, not having a computer, is like me missing an arm. Luckily enough, I always have my little backup PC with me so I still could surf the net and type my document, though very slowly. Very slowly. However, my productivity rate seems to be inversely proportional to my computer’s speed… if you get what I mean, but never mind.

So after 2 days of suffering waiting, I went to the geek’s mall and got myself a new friend. Hauling it back was tough, especially when I had badminton in the afternoon after months of growing moss at home. But thanks to Ivan, Edward and Voon Siew I managed to make it back alive. I was aching everywhere the next day, but it was all worth it

I’d like to introduce you to my new friend. His name is Poseidon but it’s a little cheesy so I’ll refrain from calling him that.

Its name is fancily projected on the floor. It has no purpose. It’s COOL!

Everything inside is glowing in blue. It doesn’t look that blue in the picture but that’s only because I switched off even more blue LEDs on my motherboard, and the power supply’s LEDs are not that visible. But talk about coincidence, I had no idea that the parts that I bought would glow at all, and it turned out that all of them glows blue. The biggest clutter you could see is the power supply’s cables, as they were arranged by a totally unskilled assembler with no sense of art whatsoever. Me.

The biggest blue-glow contributor would be the casing fan. It’s bright enough to light up my hall when I switch all the lights off. Since we’re talking so much about the colour blue, I should also point out that this PC is using what I call blue power. After 6 whole years of pledging my loyalty to the green power, I’ve finally switched back. If that doesn’t make sense to you, you should congratulate yourself because you’re not a hardcore geek who would understand something as obscure as that. If you do, well… I do too!

I would show other parts but I figured they’d bore many people. I could also start mumbling about the specifications but they would be an array of random meaningless characters to most people. So I’m going to describe my computer in the simplest way possible.

It glows blue!

Tag Victim

I’ve been tagged by Sam… again… >.<”
This time, there’s far more to write. Here goes…

LAYER 1: ON THE OUTSIDE.
Name: Tze Lun… doh.
Birth Date: 29 October 1985.
Current Status: Tired. Really.
Eye Colour: Brown-Black-Nothing-Out-Of-The-Ordinary
Hair Colour: Black. Maybe not so black. But still.
Righty or Lefty: Right hander, bench legged.

LAYER 2: ON THE INSIDE.
My Heritage: Henghua + Cantonese (… I can hear the “huh?” already…)
My Fears: Anything that might bite my hand off or might cause my hand to fall off eventually.
My Perfect Pizza: Pizzas with no weird stuff are good enough.

LAYER 3: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW.
My Thoughts First Waking Up: Am I late for anything?
My Bedtime: When the sun is about to rise When I feel sleepy
My Most Missed Memory: The ones which were missing. Which I don’t know what.

LAYER 4: MY PICK.
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
McDonald’s or Burger King: Burger King
Single or Group Dates: Why would anyone want group dates?
Adidas or Nike: Puma?
Tea or Nestea: Depends on what flavours Nestea has to offer. I was one of the testers for their “beta” flavours
Chocolate or Vanilla: Mixed!
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Did I say Coffee

LAYER 5: DO YOU..
Smoke: Never had, never will.
Curse: Accidentally, on rare occasions.
Take a Shower: Who doesn’t?
Have a Crush: Yeah! Pineapple crush mostly.
Think You’ve Been In Love: Hmmm… I’ll go think now..
Go To School: Yes. But I’m planning to quit school soon and start a pirated DVD-selling business. Wanna be my business partner?
Want To Get Married: NOimustresistthetemptationbutthehumaninstinctsinmeissayingYES. Yes lah.
Believe In Yourself: As much as I try.
Think You’re A Health Freak: I think I’m a freak. Health freak maybe not.

LAYER 6: IN THE PAST..
Drank Alcohol: Rarely, and limited to special occasions.
Gone To The Mall: The mall is like a very large treadmill. It’s good exercise.
Been On Stage: A couple of times.
Eaten Sushi: 4 pieces. The first 4. And the last 4.
Dyed Your Hair: Not yet so far.

LAYER 7: HAVE YOU EVER..
Played A Stripping Game: Yeah. Stripping computer parts is fun
Changed Who You Were To Fit In: Change is imminent, but principles must be upheld.

LAYER 8: AGE YOU’RE HOPING..
To Be Married : At the age where my wallet is thicker than my pile of bills.

LAYER 9: IN A GUY..
Best Eye Colour: I’m straight.
Hair Colour: Really.
Short Hair or Long Hair: I’m very sure about it.

LAYER 10: WHAT WERE YOU DOING..
A Minute Ago: Typing this thing.
An Hour Ago: Half dead, just reached home from school after 13 hours.
4.5 Hours Ago: In school.
1 Month Ago: CNY-ing?
1 Year Ago: My memory won’t allow me to remember.

LAYER 11: FINISH THE SENTENCES..
I love: Free time.
I hate: People who don’t use their brains.
I hide: My nga ku chips.
I miss: Free time.
I need: Free time.

Fooh. What a long one.
But as usual, the tag ends here

It’s Happening…

I seem to have seasonal problems with my memory. I’m easily overwhelmed by psychological issues – caused by the many rather unpleasant events that have been happening recently and the possibility that more will happen in the near future.

I have 3 things that I always carry with me wherever I go – my wallet, phone and house keys. I never fail to bring them everywhere I go, unless it was intentional. I never fail to constantly check whether I still have them. But I forgot to bring my wallet out twice within a week.

The first was on a schooling morning, when I left home with my housemate and was on the way to his car (we live in an apartment so getting to the car takes time) and I realised I didn’t bring my wallet along. It was my first time forgetting my wallet. It has never happened before. At least none ever for as long as I can remember (which brings us to the point of how well I can remember… which doesn’t seem very well). Luckily, I realised my blunder before we left for school so I hurried back to home and got my wallet.

Today, it got worse. I was waiting for Edward to pick me to go to school. I got a missed call, I got down my apartment and got up his car. Ivan was there too. Routine thing. We left for school, and decided to have lunch first. So we got to a nearby cafeteria, we all ordered chicken chop from the same place (which happens to be the best and most affordable chicken chop we found). Edward and Ivan then went to ordered drinks while I sat down to reserve the table. Very surprisingly, the chicken chops were ready the next minute (literally) and they were brought to my table. Edward and Ivan were still getting the drinks, and I instinctively asked to the chicken-chop-guy…

“Berapa?”

“Enam ringgit”

*Reaches for wallet*

…

…

…

*Big problem*

“Boleh tunggu sekejap ah?”

“Boleh!” *smiles*

*Frantically tries to spot Edward or Ivan*

Thank goodness, the moment I tried looking for them they came back with the drinks. I told Ivan I forgot to bring my wallet and he lent me 10 bucks. And I paid the chicken-chop-guy.

I immediately called my housemate who was fortunately still at home to bring my wallet to school when he comes to class.

I got my wallet back, but I was disturbed. Disturbed by the fact that I forgot to bring my wallet out all of things, and to top that, I forgot twice within a week.

Times like this, I just feel like sighing as hard as I could.

Overdue Tag

This is long overdue, but I figured I need to do it anyway because I got tagged multiple times…

Sam and Gabrielle are insisting that I write about “six weird things about me”, while cookies_cream is trying to make me reveal the “five things you do not know about me”… so I’m going to treat them as the same question!

So.. here goes – “Six weird things that you do not know about me“:

1. I like vegetables. Like a lot, to the point that I don’t mind eating boiled vegetables with… nothing. I actually like them.
2. I get subconsciously attracted to orange objects. There were a couple of times when I had the urge to buy a bottle of dishwasher liquid just because it was bright (and I mean bright) orange.
3. I’m afraid of kimchi (Korean preserved vegetables). I not only dislike them, I’m afraid of them. I don’t take any other Korean food because I’m afraid there would be kimchi. Don’t ask me why.
4. I think Maggi makes the best instant noodles. There may be hundreds of other brands of instant noodles out there, but I think Maggi is the best. At least for once I’m proud of a Buatan Malaysia product.
5. I know it’s childish and uncool, but I only like digital watches. I like the precision of information a digital watch can give me.
6. I have a really, really (really) weird signature and I can’t actually always get it right. Which is why I insisted on using my thumbprint for my bank account but my mum wouldn’t let me… she said thumbprints are for kids

There you go. Six really weird things about me.

I won’t tag anyone else though.

When You’re Down…

… do not fret. Take a deep breath and look at this picture:

I’m sure you’re feeling better already

   
 

(Credit: Edward)