Driving my friend's car

I need to send my car (1997 Rav4) to the shop for some semi-major maintenance work to do. So this morning I drove my friend's Toyota Cammy to work. It's a stick shift car, but then so was my Rav4, so the driving itself is not an issue. It's just that I don't like the feeling of driving somebody else's car. I always need some ease in time when sleeping in a strange case. And then same applies to driving. Still, it was fine and safe, and my friend's car worked pretty well.

roach

Cleaned up one dead roach today .... sparyed the door.... an infinite cycle that seems to be ...

Roach is back, and getting worse

Remember I said before that I have never seen roach on the second floor of town house that I lived in? Well I woke up this morning I saw a huge roach died right in the middle of room, right on the carper between my computer gears and my bed. Also worth noticing is that my room's right was on. So the roach no only came to the second floor, it also doesn't care much about the light.

I guess something is not right here, and some serious action has to be done. I don't quite understand how come all roaches were dead (or near dead when I discovered them, but that's just enough horror for me to deal with everyday.

I will probably need to spary on the door again, but since the ex-roomtate of the house owner is here, so I probably need to wait for a few more days, wait until after he left, and then I will spray the door again.

Maybe it's also about time for me to look for another living place.

And I thought my next desktop computer will be a Mac ...

I was totally serious about getting a Mac as my desktop until I started to do the math, and found that Mac is simply too costly.

In fact, the last nail on the coffin just put down today. I ordered a DELL Dimension 9200 desktop machine with Intel Quad Core process and 2Gb of memory. The graphic card isn't something state of the art (128MB nVidia GeForce 8300 GS ), but sure better than my old desktop graphic card (Nvidia FX5200) . For US$660 (tax and shipping included), I think it's a pretty nice purchase.

Almost plan on rush out to get a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, but then...

I knew I kept saying that I will get a Mac Mini as soon as Apple release a Core 2 Duo version of Mac Mini. Well, Apple finally released it today. I was so excited that I called the Apple Store near my workplace to make sure that they have it in stock. Just when I am so hyped up and so ready to pick up one after work, my rational side kicked in, and so I did some research, and found a few things that may force me to think twice before shelling out my money:

- I need to first grab a USB Keyboard since I don't have it at home.
- Graphic capability of MacMini is kind of lame as it shares 64Mb memory with main memory. It doesn't fill up my 20 inch LCD wide screen monitor though.
- The memory setting stinks. I was planned on getting a 1Gb version, and it's made up of 2 512Mb memory. So in order to get to 2Gb later, I need to throw away my 2 512Mb memory and then plug the new memory in.
- Mac doesn't support NTFS external harddisk.

So .... need to think twice.

Here comes the roach again ....

Saw semi-dead roach lying on the floor this morning, and it took me sometime to clean it up. As always, I sprayed around the edge of the doors. Hope it works.

Should have been awaken 3 hours ago ...

5:00 am now, and I am fully awake. I remember that I woke up once at 3:00 am, but didn't dare to wake up until now. I really should be wake up at 3 am, considered that I slept at 9 pm! 6 hours is really what I need, for now I am really over slept. Sigh.

I still remember the dream I was having right before I woke up. I was in a decision of skip a Geography examination, and trying to justify it with some unknown friends. The fact was that I was not studied for the examination at all, and will fail the examination indefinitely. Yet I was trying to make up excuse for myself about how useless that examination was regarding to my career.

I would say that a huge percentage of my nightmare were public examination related. Interesting indeed.

A pair of speaker fonud at dumpster

It all started this morning. I went to work as usual, started some coding, and then when I was about to throw some tissue paper into a trash bin, I saw ..... a PS2 mouse and A PAIR of SPEAKER!

"The hell! Is this pair of speaker still working? Why thrown it away?"

Our IT lady to me that no one is using speaker in the office, and then she said I could take it away. So here I was, taking this pair of speaking, and put them right next to my pillow. They are not great in sound quality, but great enough to allow me to enjoy Podcast while I was sleeping at night.

Need to find more web 2.0 savvy friends :-P

It seems like that I am the only one doing microBlog (Twitter, Jiku ...) . So it doesn't really make sense for me to update my twitter that frequent. Still, if you are interest in subscribing my Twitter feed, you can either go directly to the Twitter page, or use whatever Twitter feed RSS subscriber, or using Twitter gadget for iGoogle home page, like what I am doing now.

My Twitter user name is deecayone, by the way.

I am also planning to get a Mac as my desktop later. It's time to let me Lenovo X60 Tablet work really as a Tablet instead of being both my notebook and primary desktop. I want to get a Mac Mini, but simply cannot accept the fact that I got only a Core Duo machine after pay US$599. So I am going to wait for the release of Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with the new OSX Leopard. This is be mainly act as my media center on the desk. And yeah, I DO NOT have a TV. Don't really see a need for it at all.

Instruction for Alice

Alice was having some problem figuring out how to access the multiplayer option on Mario Party 8 and Bomberman (J) for Wii, so last night I drew these instructions so that she can bring them with her in her next party gathering:

Movies and Roaches

I haven't seen dead roaches in almost a week. Spraying around the door edge really worked like a charm. I shall do that more often.

Recently I've seen quite some movie, like the Twenty Three, the Simpsons Movie, Transformer and so on. I want to see Harry Potter 5, but I will wait til my wife have time and then see the movie with her.

Oh by the way, I am still search for a good audio hosting site that does what YouTube do to video. Let me know if you heard of any good one, for I have some old audio recording that I would like to post online.