Less than a month. I cannot wait.

I cannot relate to the people who dread leaving, but applied to leave in the first place. I mean, hello what

I reconfigured my iTunes library to run off Nirvana and now my permissions is pretty screwed up. Oh well. I shall overcome it anyhow. I've learnt that its not advisable to shift my WHOLE iTunes folder to my external hard-disk (because that practically wipes out your entire library =A=;; ) but to just shift the iTunes Music folder over (where all the wtf nonsense is at). I stupidly did the former and have to reimport all my music back in. OH WELL.

I have Murakami as the second backup disc. It's a sleek WD 1TB desktop disk that will hopefully survive the flight to Japan, once I surround it with soft things. Coincidentally, it matches Nirvana, who is a 120GB WD portable exthdd. I should change its name. It's temporarily called Murakami because I lack a firm, sparkle-filled imagination. I might want to call it Nabokov because it's hefty. Maybe not.

I'm leaving in less than a month, and I can't wait to say goodbye!

:D:D:D:D HOMZ.

TYPING ON MY NEW MACBOOK.

<3<3<3

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

I miss the 90s!

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.

Keyboards!

• diNovo Edge
• G15 Keyboard
• Cordless Desktop Wave

Mice!

• MX Revolution
•  G9 Laser Mouse

So Dad brought back these wonderful Elecom goodies! I HEART ELECOM!

( we all love elecom~~ )

I'm like a mini Elecom fan: have their ZeroShock laptop case (bright orange lulz) and one of their sleek mice (from the Palvo series). Awesome. Want to stock up on more Elecom stuff when I'm back in the Land of All Things Kitschy. XD

where did I buy my stuff last year... I think it was Yodobashi Akiba...

( mmmm )

I managed to more or less solve the color-ink problem for my Canon Printer but now black ink refuses to come out.

It's a print-head problem I swear. I'll try to revive it before thinking about buying a new print-head. Seriously, I'm having bad tech karma.

Edit: Now with a delicious poll!

Y'see my friend has trouble picking out a new layout for his blogsite and needs help!

( huge ass pic )

Note: they are all magazine-styled wordpress layouts. for obvious reasons.

[Poll #1190336]

He appreciates all the input!!!! :D

And I'm still spreading germs like no tomorrow D:

The 2008 Mobile World Congress has delish phones.

Especially ( this baby. )

Nokia, I've been a loyal fan of yours for ages, but when the competition presents me with something that looks like this:




( Look at these babies )

Oh man. Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. I knew that reading all those CES feeds would reward me with unwholesome amounts of drool. I love the first one especially.

Finally, phones available here are starting to look like how phones should look like - Japanese phones-ish. Though, the lack of 3G on certain phones makes me a very sad fangirl indeed.