2011: Post #2

Wow this is unbelievable.

Only 1 post (make that 2 now) in 2011 and it's already the end of October. Always wondered if one day I would grow out of blogging + msn and it seems like I may have grown out of one of them. Maybe.

2005: 171
2006: 209
2007: 175
2008: 147
2009: 88
2010: 53

Ok yes I'm very bo-liao, I actually went to calculate the number of posts per year since 2005 (maybe there's some easier way to find out).
So the time when I started to blog less was in 2009, which was when I started university.
Between 2005 and now, what has changed?

2005
I had a lot of free time.
Obviously I wasn't very worried about my 'O' levels yet because I still had time to blog. Or maybe the blogging was because I was worried, hence the increase in 2006.

I didn't care what others thought about me.
Not that I'm super self-conscious now. It's just that with the advent of social media and stuff, we're supposed to be more careful of what we post online since anyone can just do an online check on you at anytime.
I probably didn't self-edit as much as I do now too, which is why I take very long just to get 1 post out (actually this might be the main reason why I hardly blog nowadays).

Twitter/Facebook didn't exist.
The aforementioned social media probably played a part too, since most of the time the purpose of me blogging was to express my feelings somewhere (other than holiday posts). Nowadays I can just "update my status" or "tweet"!

I would never have blogged about something so 'intellectual' (or even in this format).


DOES THIS MEAN THAT I'M GETTING OLD?! :( :( :(

New iMac!

Hi everyone!

It's been more than half a year since I last blogged. I tried to blog a few times but never completed the posts, so they're still stuck as drafts.

Currently interning now and it is (or was, not sure) raining, so I'm REALLY sleepy.

Anyway I just got a new iMac, just in time for the release of OS X Lion!

Got the 21.5" model and it looks great on my desk. The 27" one would have been too big.

Bought it online because I wanted to swop the Magic Mouse (already have one) for the Magic Trackpad, and the wireless keyboard for the wired keyboard (only the wired one has a numeric keypad). It's also cheaper to buy it online if you're a student because there's the Apple education discount, although they don't actually check if you're really a student. Plus you get a free printer i.e. buy a printer at $199, then send in the rebate form.

Because I bought it after 6 June but before the release of Lion, I got it for free. And I can install it on all the other Macs at home since Apple believes in sharing, unlike their money-grabbing competitor.

Lol I totally sound like I'm doing an Apple advert. It'd be really cool to work for a company like Apple or Google though.

Alright now that I've got my first post after approximately 7 months up, hopefully there will be more to come after this. :)

3 down (1 to go)

So glad that my 3 year 2 papers are over already!
Left with a Marketing paper on Thursday then I'll be off to Sydney at night. Arriving back in Singapore at 11:55pm on 31st Dec so I'll be counting down to 2011 (this year is 2010 right?) in the airport. -.-

Erm really I have nothing interesting to blog about, cos studying is never interesting.
Learning is interesting, but studying for exams is not.

Hopefully I'll do better this semester.

20

So yesterday turned out to be a pretty good day!

Chee Wee came over at 8.30am and went to school with me for my Tax review lecture.

Here's the 2 of us looking very happy on the Pioneer shuttle bus for some reason. Probably couldn't wait to get out of school.

Had lunch at my favourite DimSum place with my family (think I forgot to take photos) then went shopping.
At this point I got really moody because I couldn't find anything nice (was looking for shoes) and I didn't know where to go. I think I have very expensive feet; nothing seems to fit me nicely and manage to look stylish at the same time.

Finally gave up on shoe-shopping and went to House @ Dempsey for dinner!

Look at the 'cake' that my mum arranged! Pretty right?!

Haha she tried to surprise me but I saw the guy flipping the dessert menu to show her what cakes were available.

Headed home after that to finally unveil my present from Chee Wee.

Tadah! Duffy now has a female friend. :)
She came with a Marc Jacobs USB keyring attached to her cheer uniform which is now hanging on my bag.

And now, it's back to studying. Maybe next year I'll have a birthday week instead!

20

Happy Birthday to me! Let's see if by the end of the day it'll really be a "happy" day (keeping in mind that I have a Tax lecture at 9:30am).

Project HTC Day 2

Slept at 2+am last night because I tried to update my jailbroken iPhone to iOS 4.1 (yes I know I'm very slow). It kept going into DFU mode, recovery mode, and getting stuck there. After a few hours I finally managed to fix it.

So this morning I decided to download CyDelete from Cydia, only to get a system notice that Springboard crashed and my iPhone was in 'safe mode'. It also changed my wallpaper to a picture of this sad iPhone!

Couldn't stand looking at this ugly but cute picture anymore, so I had to switch back to the HTC.

If you thought that the iPhone's keypad was difficult to type on, the HTC HD Mini one is worse. The screen is too sensitive at times and the keys are really small! The phone itself is already significantly smaller than the iPhone, so just imagine how small the keys are.

The phone also lags, which makes me think that I should just go back to using my slowpoke iPhone since both are laggy.

Let's see if I can last another day!

Project HTC

Recently a very good friend of mine lent me her HTC HD mini, cos my iPhone is SO old. It's super super slow and the battery can only last for a day with some mail-checking and the occasional use of Tweetdeck and Facebook.

So here's the start of Project HTC!

I'm going to TRY to use the phone for maybe a week, although I seriously doubt it's going to last me that long considering I've only used it for a day and already I have problems with it.

Like just now I tried unlocking the phone (similar to iPhone; press a button on the top, then slide downwards instead of sideways) but no matter how I pressed the button, nothing appeared on the screen. Then I used another phone to call myself and it came back to life.

And the phone is almost brand new ok!

Also it hanged when I connected it to my Mac. Which brings me to another problem: Windows is so unfriendly!
It has ZERO compatibility with Mac. Won't even allow me to sync my contacts.

Sigh.

Day 1: I have a newfound sense of appreciation for my iPhone, regardless of how slow it is.