Bought my new laptop today, damn happy. :) Didnt buy the tablet one, bought the HP Pavilion DV5, which was $100 cheaper. Bought it at $1699, student price with free 2nd and 3rd year warranty. 

Placed side by side with my acer, the HP looks damn big and nice to touch. But the acer's keyboard is slightly more sturdy, and the acer isnt so much of a fingerprint magnet. The HP's top, screen, and the keyboard area, is like some reflective surface, super shiny when there's light.

So now, going to transfer all my files into my new laptop. The Acer, throw it to my sister. She looks so excited at getting a laptop. Wait till it crashes and hangs on her. 

And today was submission for all our drawings. I didn't managed to complete all my drawings, but what the heck. Just submitted it and went for GEMS, which was damn boring. Wanted to skip GEMS so that I can take my photos for the upcoming assignment, but still went for GEMS in the end. Pang sei Sky, told him that I'd accompany him, but in the end I left for GEMS.

And another good news, or not so good news, is that 3 of my photographs were choses to be exhibited soon. Haha wow, I meant I'd never expect mine to get chosen, and 3 were chosen! Others had only 1 or 2. Hm ok, lets not get hao lian here.

Anyway, trying to get used to using Vista now, which is quite nice and hard to use at the same time. And this boy is damn heavy, about 2.7kg with the battery. Sheesh!

Stupid eng wah didnt give me my pay on time. 2 days late already, they think I work for them free of charge? 

Tomorrow, my pay better be credited to my acc if not I'm gonna make everybody at the head office go: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah 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I hate AutoCAD drawings and sketching.

But I love Hello Panda and Green Tea.

I ordered my new laptop today, the HP Pavilion TX2517AU. Its a tablet notebook, so its kinda small, 12". But the tablet function is perfect for my AutoCAD and photoshop processing. But since its a tablet, the processor is an AMD chipset, 2.0Ghz, which isnt very fast, and AMD chipsets are known to heat up even more than Intel. But since my Acer is using Intel Core 2 Duo, and it heats up like hell, the AMD cant be much worse.

But the graphics card is quite good, ATI HD 3200. Rendering effects will take lesser time, and watching pirated DVDs wont be such a pain in the eye, or arse. 

The whole package comes with a free 2nd and 3rd year warranty as there was a student promotion going on when I ordered it. And it comes with some other free stuff which I doubt I'll be needing. Like a USB powered lamp or fan? WTH.

Oh well, 2kg will be light enough for bringing into studios in school. And small compact enough to watch a DVD, while doing my drawings, in class. 

As for my current Acer, not that it sucks or anything. Ok, it sucks a lot. But if its for web surfing or just typing, its ok. But try using AutoCAD and photoshop on it and it'll start to be like a bitch. A slam on the keyboard, sending the impact right down to the HDD will be enough to make it shut the F*** up. 

So my sis can have this Acer. Hopefully she'll backup her data every now and then, or else this Acer is gonna try to be funny again.

This Acer could last for 2 years. Now thats durability. For a screwed up laptop.

Just as I expected; tons of school work to do. They never stop throwing work at us do they? One after another, so much so that I find it quite amusing, how we all manage to complete our assignments in the end.

Draw 16 human figures, 4 drawings per set; standing, sitting, squatting, stretching.

Draw 16 human figures, 4 drawings per set; walking, running, jumping, turning.

Draw 6 sets of furniture with human figures. 3 drawings per set.

Measure 3 different types of staircases, draw the plan, elevation and section. 3 drawings per staircase.

Take 40 different photographs of yourself doing what you do at home. 10 different things, 4 photos per set.

Collage the photos and print and mount on A1 board. 20 images per board. Which is quite expensive, about $20 per board.

Draw the pavilion using AutoCAD, plan, section, elevation and detail. Include in titleblock and print by next thursday. 

Alot of work huh? Its crazy. And I'm cursing. 

But its always the small things in life that make me smile.

So I've learnt to ignore some people who I find quite detestable. Avoid them. 

2011 will come soon and I'll be outta here.   :)

Whats the difference between staying here and in a hostel? I'd rather stay in a hostel.

Timothy bought a pack of Hack sweets (the type the lau ah peks eat), and we all took it like some drugs.

Life sucks? Well yes. Weekdays are more or less the same. Wake up in the morning, go to school. Have lessons. Finish lessons. Go for dinner. Go back "home". On my laptop, go online, surf the net, chat online with friends. Tired, go to sleep. 

Sleep, maybe its the only place I dont feel constrained. But all good things have to come to an end; waking up and going to school. Another day. Boring. Meaningless.

Weekends? Work. Until late into the night. I really wish I dont have to work just to support myself. But school materials are so damn expensive. Paying the adult fair for transport also sucks. Handphone bills? Other expenses? If I dont work, where the hell am I gonna get the money? 

Sunday mornings, wake up so darn early to go to church. After that go back. Do my school work or go to work. And I thought poly students were supposed to have more freedom. To hell with that.

And I dont know what have done to offend her. Seeing her black face everyday when I come back "home". Doesnt even respond when I call her. Like I want to call you like that. Throwing my cloths all over the room. Whatever I left outside in the living room will be thrown at my door at night.

So I really cant wait to be 21 years old. So I can go out and live on my own. 

For our photography workshop we had to shoot 10 shots of different composure.

Reflection.

Different shapes.

Shadowscape

Stacked planes.

Walking intro.

Big sky.

Edge cut skin.

Figure in landscape.

Full frame.

Off center.

New MacBooks are out! But abit pricy. $2588 for the 2.4GHZ MacBook. Compared to the old one which is like $1000 cheaper. So its almost the same as a MacBook Pro, except for the screen size.

But anyway, I dont have to ask if its worth paying $1000 more for a dedicated graphics card, cuz now all the MacBooks feature a dedicated Nividia graphics card. And its more ex too.   :(

Then wondering since the new MacBook's price is almost the same as the old MacBook Pro, which one should I get? My school is selling the old MBP at $2800, so its about $300 difference.

Hope Apple will reduce the price of the new MacBook soon, so I can get my itchy hands on it and become a fully fledged Apple fanboy.

School starts tomorrow, which sucks. 

Was just thinking again about whether to buy the MacBook or the MacBook Pro, and also heard that Apple would be releasing new MacBook models on the 14th Oct, which is damn good news for me, as if it is true, most prob the price of the current models will drop. And heard also that the new MacBooks will have the NVIDIA graphics card in them, which is awesome, as that would allow people to have both the portability of the MacBook, and also the power of the MacBook Pro.

So I have eliminated the idea of purchasing a Windows based laptop, and its down to Apple. But then which model? Is is worth it to pay $1000 more just for the dedicated graphics? Or should I just wait until the new models arrive? Maybe they wont even arrive, just some random post online to get Apple fanboys like me excited. 

Today was the day I nearly got sliced into 2. Came back from work at around 11pm. Then went into the lift, up to the 21st floor where I live. Then suddenly the damn lift broke down, got stuck in between the 20th and 21st floor.

Took out my phone and wanted to call for help. Low battery, left with 1 bar. And worse, no signal. Thanks to StarHub. Thought to myself: wah, cant be so suay mah. Then pressed the alarm bell. Nah bei, so soft. How to hear? So I opened the lift doors, and punched the outer doors, hoping someone would hear me. Finally somebody came. He told me the he'd call the guard. The guard came, told me he'd call the repair man. 

An hour later, the repair man came. He opened the outer doors, and told me to grab his and and climb out. 

"No way, what if the left went down halfway? My body would be up here and my legs downstairs." But what to do? So I climbed out, and halfway, the freakin life went down by like a few cm!!! Shit! I climbed out and by then I couldnt stand properly. My legs were numb, cuz I nearly got sliced into 2. 

Then thanked the person. Got home, and blogged this down. 

Gosh. Thank God the lift didnt go all the way down.

Got my pay slip, with some of my transport claim included. And so my savings for my MacBook Pro starts. Decided to get the MacBook Pro not the MacBook cause I need the graphics card for my design software. Although its more expensive. And No WAY am I going to get a Windows based laptop, though I'm still gonna install Windows XP on my MacBook Pro, if I ever get it.

For now, I'm sticking to my Acer, which is pissing me off by the minute.

So today was my well deserved off day, cuz I have been working from 930am-1030pm from Monday to Thursday. Tuesday I worked till 1230am as there was a midnight show. Watched the House Bunny with Tim at Suntec. Wanted to watch Eagle Eye, but watched that last night. 

Still wanna catch connected, painted skin (yes, I watch Chinese movies although I dont speak or understand the language), Max Payne (which will open when I have started school...), and also Tropic Thunder. 

School starts on the 13th, which sucks alot, cuz I'm used to my 2 month holiday already. And I dont want to go to school lah. Hope the studio has not changed much after the renovation, as I want to hide behind the table and play PSP, and slack.