A Tan

Woo. Trying out XJournal right now, because it has pretty awesome tag-remembering features and I have too many tags to actually remember.

Anyway, I am unbelievably tired -- just finished doing research for Dr. G's paper (nearly 3000 words of research for a 1,500 word paper x_x) -- and I have four hours of classes in store for me. It's a warmup y'see, before I plunge into writing that Pamela essay that's due. Tomorrow. At 2pm. What I really want to do now is sleep, have a long nap, curl up in a pile of blankets (or just a mattress would be suffice), sink down into a nice armchair, put my head down on this table -- ANYTHING to get some shut eye.

Well, in anycase, I finished my never-ending Gender paper. I'm quite proud of it so here, let me shove a chunk of it down your throats!

( Eat this! )

Yeah, you're probably snoring by now. I wish I was. I kind of want to write on how restrictive language is in Pamela or something original -- unpack the word "incarceration" and just play with it the whole time. But 1,500 words is rather short to do a full-blown thesis on characters being bound by language or something like that (1,500 is deceptively short. It takes a hell lot of time to write, sadly.) but how do I make it concise. Like poprocks.

'slike attended the Buddhism in Asia (henceforth known as BIA) pre-trip briefing yesterday and to be honest, it feels dodgy. I mean, it's a student-run affair, more so that last year's Japan trip, but still. Dodgy dodgy. I wish there were more friends/Japan people taking part. It seems like a good platform to get started on whatever pseudo-academic career path I have in mind so... yeah. Prof W-B was there (he's on sabbatical wtf) to give a talk and once again proof that Lit Profs are generally more interesting and witty than your average speaker. Or maybe I'm just biased lah.

Okay. Need to pack up and head for my Gender class. Sleeeeeepy. I'm really, absolutely, positively sure that I will fall asleep. Sorely tempted to not go for Dr. G's lecture and just head hope to nap write his paper. I mean, he's been rather happy with my work so far so I want to write a smashing paper.

wtf. Why is iTunes playing a lullaby.

:D:D:D:D HOMZ.

TYPING ON MY NEW MACBOOK.

<3<3<3

Okay, I need to sleep. Driving test tomorrow morning....

I kind of forgot that the Apple Keynote would be taking place later today (blasphemous I know) -- I had the idea that it was TOMORROW, but oh well. About 3 more hours before I either have a small heart attack or get bored out of my mind. Judging from the leaked photos, there isn't that much to jump around for yet. (Although if the rumors about having dual graphics cards in the MBP are true, I might do a backflip.)

So yes, probably tomorrow morning I'll be zipping an e-mail off to Sapura to ask if they'll be updating the notebook tender they have with NUS anytime soon (to reflect the delicious new laptops OR a price change). If they're going to do it like, next academic year, I'll just get the old MPB (that is, if there is a price drop) because hey, I need. And need >want right? I mean okay, the rumored new specs (along with er, bad grammar -- sorry, ripped it from HWZ forums) :

#  sleeker enclosure design
# Support nVidia Hybrid SLI = support OpenCL, available with next Mac OS X release = Long battery life!
# Sport a mini DisplayPort video output instead of the miniDVI & DVI o/ps.
# MBP Have 2 nVidia GPUs, 1 intergrated and 1 discrete = much better processing capabilities
# Have a BUTTONLESS, larger trackpad = Multi-touch and tap system!
# Probably have HD display, and much much longer battery life 'cos of SSD drives
# Have no Firewire ports, except for MBPs
# Will probably sell at current prices, or cheaper!

are all very lovely. (2 nVidia GPUs!!!!!!) but they probably won't be fully utilized by the n00bish me. I mean, even at the height of my graphics and possible music mixing I won't complain of the current MBP's capabilities. I'm not that good yet. So aside from heat issues, the new hardware is kind of eyebrow raising at most. (Which still makes me squee though!)

Worse come to worse I'll just grab the MBP from non-school sources. Which would be a bitch. Because then I'd forgo the awesome freebies that come with the school tender a.k.a Micrsoft Office and more importantly Adobe CS 3 (now CS4 is delicious too but half of the new additions, well I don't know how to use them so it'd be wasted technology. I do want a CS though. 3 or 4 doesn't matter right now.) Oh. And I forgot. 3 Years Warranty (a.k.a Apple Care, which would cost a BOMB in retail).

Anyway, post will be updated real-time once the keynote starts. Much like my old fangirling of keynotes.

EDIT @ 1:24am -- New MBP being announced! (The glass trackpad looks sweet!)

( FANGIRLING )

DECISIONS. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO GET NOW. :\ At least it was simpler last time :Just get an FRIGGIN MBP. Now I actually have a possible contender with the MB?! Argh. Arrgggh. I'm so holding out.

Bottom line? Well okay, I really don't like the glossy screen but I'm no pro at graphics and what not so I'm not giong to diss that. I am worried however about nasty scratches that might show up. So basically, I can't really like the screen (have you seen how hard it is to take photos of the damn thing?) but the graphics is something that I can live with. And something that I can wait for another year. Unless Sapura drastically lowers the price for their old MBP offer. Like instead of S$2974 to S$2500 or something. I'm dreaming but hey.