In my last post, I said I was getting the Prolimatech Mega Shadow...

But alas,

I lost to the temptation.

So I got my self a custom water cooling kit bought from a friend in a forum.

I've yet to received it, so no pictures yet but I will post a worklog when I get my hands on it.

I know, 

Some would say it's not worth it. Air cooling is safer. Water and electronics don't mix. 

But if you're sitting where I'm sitting, you'll understand why I changed my mind.

So, I cashed out RM 1,110. A lot for a dangerous kit. 

This totals up to RM 6,389. For a new computer, that is effing expensive. 

So I'm left with RM 3,211 left.

My paycheck is RM 1,000 per month. RM 1,100 depending on how hard a project is.

RM 500/month will go to my investment portfolio (yes, I'm going into stock exchange as well, lucky me)

while the other RM 500 will be going into my savings.

Which then will kick my plan to accumulate RM 20k in my savings account back for about 2 month, from 2 years and 6 month to 2 years and 8 month....

And if you're wondering, no, that RM 20k is not for any mosque building (marriage purpose). I'm saving for something else.

Sigh...

My new monitor, the AOC 2434PW 24' LCD TFT Monitor with HDMI.





Which means.

No more playing PS3 while arguing with others who wanted to watch tv instead.

YEAY!

Oh and if you're wondering, yes, that's my PS3 underneath the monitor.

 And to add to next week (or maybe the following week) Prolimatech Mega Shadow that I'll be buying, are these:


This is the Scythe S-flex 120mm fans. I bought it off Lowyat.net. It costs a bit but reviews gave these thing glowing stars, so I'm buying their opinion.

Next is this:



OCZ Freeze. Extreme Thermal Compound. 

And lastly, is this:



ArcticClean. Basically, it's a cleaner.

There you have it. Combine these with next week's Prolimatech Megatron, I mean, Mega Shadow, and I'll have the ultimate rig for air cooling.

Water cooling? Maybe next time. When I have the money to throw away. For now, Megatron will suffice.


Oh, and if you noticed. I've changed the layout. Cute, isn't it? It's just for fun, so I chose a cuter layout this time. And no, it's not girly. I find it... virally funny. Seriously, look at the sheep damnit! 


Well then, till next time. I'm off to do more drafting of my novel.

 life goes on...

Sucks it maybe, but life must go on.

New Monitor will arrive tomorrow, new cpu cooler will arrive... probably next week... 

I'm getting a bit frustrated with how things work here...

It's... uh, slow.

Online banking takes 3 days to transfer fund from one bank to another... and I thought e-mails arrived in mailbox in just 3 seconds after you pressed send!

Anyhow. At least I have ample time to decide from whom I'd buy my cpu cooler. The seller who sold me my new monitor was...uh, didn't give me much confidence in him. But I was glad when he PMed me saying he had couriered that thing. Though I still am worried until I see the monitor in front of me. RM700 is a lot of money to waste.

My beast, have been acting weird lately. It started when I tried to manually set the value of its RAM, then the system goes unstable for a while, then I reset them, then it failed, then it resets itself to default setting, then I set the value again but avoid the I-don't-understand-what-this-do settings alone, then it's okay, then the OS start to act shit, then I had to throw away some things, then I cursed the OS, then it all worked out. Luckily for this beast, I haven't got the chance to give it a piece of my mind, Russian style.

That settles it (I hope).

And my novel, well that went a bit slower than usual. I had been reading off books off of my 2009 read pile and I am down to my last book, Brent Weeks' Beyond the Shadow. I've had several interesting ideas to put into my own book after all those reading (4 books in 1 week!) and I'll probably do it around this week, this weekend or next week.

3rd draft... looks like there's going to be a 4th and a 5th for you... 

 Now I had to change 3 more items~

AAAARRRGGHHH!!



Why is my luck so bad this time?!

What did I do?!

Why do I have to change my monitor as well!?


Why COREGA?!
WHY NOW?!



Why not the end of the year?!


WWWWWHHHHYYYYY!!!

I think I'm spending more than I could muster...

Had around RM7200 in my account at first.

Withdrawn RM3400 for my PC.

That's RM3800 left.

Dished out RM210 for books.

Dished another RM500 for other expenses...

And that left me...

around RM 3090 left in my account...



O_O!

I need to start managing my money back.

Bleh.

 YEAH!

In just a few minutes we'll be stepping into 2010!

Goodbye 2009, it was fun!

Welcome 2010, hope you bring good tidings (or fortunes) with you!

And to those whose birthday falls on the 1st of January...


HAH! You're OLD!

XDDD


Okay, enough playing around,

2009 had really been pleasurable to me. Although, as always, there are setbacks and "shitthissucks!" moments, but alas, everything turns up good.

2010, well, I'm hoping it'll be a good year cuz I am (I will, you'll see) planning to send my very first manuscript.

I'm hoping nothing major will happen in 2010, 2011 and 2012 (I'd like to see all those "OMGMAYANCALENDARENDING2012!!" retards burn! HAHAHAHHA!). It'd suck if my book sells only to find 2012 is where everything ends....


Oh well, more prayers then!


So, everyone who's reading this blog (is there any anyway?), HAPPY NEW YEAR and MAY 2010 BRINGS GOOD LUCK AND FORTUNE TO YOU ALL!!
 

 YEARGH!! XD

Yes, I am in a happy mood.

Why?

Because my new computer is up and running and I have had nothing but fun with it.

Imagine playing the latest games with the highest video settings possible...with no stuttering, NOTHING.

That is what I am experiencing right now.

No stuttering, no "stuck-then-die". NOTHING.

I AM A HAPPY MAN.

Let me say that again.

I AM A HAPPY MAN.


Oh, and here's some of the pics of my BEAST! (I named it so because it IS A BEAST!! okay...  just kidding, but it is fast)




It's not a full tower, but I like it.  So, what's the spec of this beast?

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.67GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P6TD Deluxe
RAM: Corsair Dominator 6GB Triple Channel
Chassis: Cooler Master Elite 334 Nvidia Edition
GPU: Nvidia 8800GT 512MB
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M700 
HDD: Maxtor 80GB, WF 250GB and 1 TB (external)


I've only build it yesterday and so far, there is really really really low noise emission coming from the chassis. The temperature for the CPU and Chassis stabilized around 50 degrees Celcius in idle (I'm living in a tropical country btw) and goes up to 68 when playing games like Modern Warfare 2 at High settings.


Also, As I've mentioned in my last post, this week is hectic for me. I'm going back to my hometown (I've been there last weekend and already I'm going back there) tomorrow night probably. I'll be staying there till around friday then I'm off to JB (Johor Bahru) for my uncle's wedding until Sunday.



As for my novel. I am proud to say that I have finished my 2nd draft. I'll be doing the 3rd draft next week. One week rest, then hell all over again. YEAY!

Hiya dudes and dudettes.

How yall doin?

...

Okay, so slangs doesn't suit me.

Anyway,

Got the book I asked my niece in Australia to buy for me.

And finished it two days later. Yep. I had waited a whole year for that book. It was not bad though, a bit of frustration, a bit of "yeah, right", a bit of "okay, that is just disappointing" and a whole lot of fun filled action.

If you are wondering what it was, it was The Five Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly.

Also, I have just finished reading Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (yes, I did get the name wrong in my last post, I will edit that later) in just two days.

Gosh, now that I wrote about it, I do think I am trying to finish up my 2009 read pile. Oh well, just a few more books left to be read.

Oh and also, I have just finished Before They Are Hanged and The Last Argument of Kings... (did I get that right?) by Joe Abercrombie. I have been held back by Before They Were Hanged for a couple of weeks for the storyline (It gets kinda dragging halfway through) but I am glad that I finished it. It was just a shame that the ending wasn't what I had expected it to be. But then again, maybe that's for the best.

Hey, I got my apostrophes back. Hurray for that! (I was having trouble with the apostrophes with this netbook I'm using right now)

Anyway, now that I've managed to finish off Joe Abercrombie's books, it's time to finish off Brent Weeks'. But maybe after I finish of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. I have been saving the urge to read that book for awhile now.

Oh yeah, back to Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan. It was okay. The idea is incredible, I really like it but not the character. I found Deryn Sharp (or Dylan Sharp) to be considerably annoying and Aleksander an idiot. But maybe that's because they were kids.

I can't say I'm intrigue to know what will happen next though.

As for my novel. well, I have finished the second draft. Cut and changed a whole lot of the storyline, it steered away for quite a distance from the original first draft, but I think I am liking this one better. Time to work on that other story I had in my notebook.

Work done work start. Life is so full of work.

Phew!

What a jolly tiresome day.

Ganz-1です。

Yes, I did say jolly and tiresome...

Went to KLCC today with my sis and her husband (my brother-in-law?) with their kids nanny and their kids (of course)

Went ahead for the Friday Prayer.. this makes it my 2nd week having Friday Prayers at the KLCC mosque consecutively.

Too bad I missed the first half of the khutbah. But I did make it for the prayer itself.


Anyway, that's not the main point.

What I do want to say is this:

I went ahead and bought these:




Dan Brown's Lost Symbol and




Scott Westerfield's Leviathan.


I wanted to buy The Lost Symbol for a long time, but didn't have the money, so I waited for the Year End Sale. Hey, 30% discount is huge for me.

But then again, this post is not about those books, but about this:



A shirt Made in Heaven. Seriously. I kid you not. It said so at the bottom of all that jibberish.




See? It says there 'Tengoku Seisaku' which means (for the Japanese illiterate) 'Made in Heaven'.

Yes. I too laugh at it when I read the whole thing.

That, if you were wondering, is a menu used in a bar. They even placed the phone number (that's passion for you, malays! go and do a better job!) to make it look real. How's that for passion in fashion.

Hiya.

A bit down. And yes, I still haven't figure out what layout to use for this blog.

Yesterday was probably one of my luckiest and unluckiest (unluckiest?) day ever...


Yep. It's both luckiest and unluckiest. Or you could call it weird... or just normal if you find it that.

So what happened yesterday?

It started out as a simple plan to go to the PCFair 2009 held at KL Convention Center to buy some upgrade parts for my computer.

Head out from home @ 11 a.m.

arrive @ KL around 11.30 a.m

stuck in traffic congestion in front of the convention center @ 11.30 a.m- 12.15 p.m

luck no.1 = accidentally found KL Convention Center parking area (my bro and I were thinking of parking the car in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel though...see? Lucky, right?)

luck no.2 = accidentally found the only parking spot in the parking area and it's directly in front of the elevator.

heads into PCFair exhibition halls @ 12.30 p.m

bad luck no.1 = no booth selling pc parts... IT'S AN EFFING PCFAIR AND NO BOOTH SELLING PC PARTS!! WTH??!!

bad luck no.2 = it rained...

went to the mosque for the Friday prayer @ 12.50 p.m

decided to go to Low Yat Plaza instead @ 1.45 p.m

Stuck in a small congestion driving towards Low Yat Plaza @ 2.15 p.m

Arrived at Low Yat Plaza @ 2.45 p.m

Walk around computer stores picking up price lists @ 3.00 p.m

Have lunch @ 3.30 p.m

decide what to buy and further price checking @ 3.30 p.m

bad luck no.3 = RHB Bank ATM machine rejected transaction.

bad luck no.4 = Maybank ATM machine rejected transaction.

bad luck no. 5 = CIMB ATM machine out of order.

bad luck no.6 = EVERY ATM MACHINE IN THE BUILDING REJECTED MY TRANSACTION!! AGAIN, WTH??!!

decide to buy the parts using Credit Card @ 4.20 p.m

decide NOT to buy the parts using Credit Card after stupid guy said "must add 2% to the price" and I went "WTF?" @ 4.30 p.m

Went to Sungei Wang Plaza instead for Asar Prayer and ATM machine @ 5.00 p.m

luck no.3 = Transaction Complete @ CIMB ATM machine... RM1500 taken out.

bad luck no.7 = CIMB ATM machine out of RM50 notes... crap...

bad luck no.8 = EVERY OTHER EFFING ATM MACHINE IN SUNGEI WANG PLAZA REJECTED MY TRANSACTION!!

Furious, asked bro to help, bro took out 500 from his account. Happy and heads back to Low Yat Plaza @ 5.30 p.m

bad luck no.9 = NO STORE HAS THE EFFING TRIPLE CHANNEL DDR3 RAM!!

bad luck no.10 = Had to buy the more expensive Corsair DOMINATOR RAM.. it's RM948!!

bad luck no.11 = Off budget by RM216...

Heads back home.


I almost gave up... but perseverance prevailed... I guess... I dunno.. but one think I do know...

GOD's probably pissed off with me...


REPENT TIME!!

And sadly, the place is still the same...


Yes, I know I said I'd change it. My bad.

Anyway,


November is over and to those who participated in NaNoWriMo and actually finished those 50 thousand words, congratulation.

I didn't participate fyi.

I don't think I can... not this year. Too much work to do.

I'll probably try it next year. I hope

So, what have I been doing lately?

There was the Aidiladha celebration. It's purpose: to celebrate those brave souls who answered GOD's call for the Hajj.

I was at my hometown celebrating with my families.


Then there was my novel. I'm near the end of my second draft and will probably start my third draft sometimes this month. Or maybe next year. Depends on the condition.

Books that I am currently reading:
-How to Write (the Guardian)
-How to Write for Television
-The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)
-Write Great FIction


Sigh. Gaining a skill is hard work.

Oh well.


Cya.

And I'M BACK!


still with the same layout...


I know, you're saying, WTH?

Actually, I did looked for new layouts in the internet. I only haven't found the one that I do like. Did find one with NaNoWriMo theme, but I'm not participating in NaNoWriMo, so, not for me.


Anyway, I went and watched 2012 two days ago. A midnight screening.

And here's a snip review of what to expect in the movie:

- A hero whose luck puzzled even the Gods... seriously.
- Volcanic ash that does nothing to airplanes
- Gigantic tsunami with no fish whatsoever in it... yup, not even the whales...
- Superb CG

That's it. I hope that's not "anti-climactic" for those of you who haven't watch it.

So, what next in the movie list?

I don't know... probably Prince of Persia next year... I'm not in the mood for another 2012 apocalyptic-modern-armageddon-of-some-sort. The rest, I'll probably download them from the internet...


Hey, they gave it for free, it'd be stupid not to use it, right?

 And it will happen this week! ... or this coming week...

What will change, you ask?


This blog entirely I guess... the layout and everything.


I've had this thing since.... early April? I think and it was mostly to go away from the original AKUSUB blog (where I placed all of my translation work) and to make AKUSUB's entirely a work blog instead of me trashing stuff out of me brain...


The black layout and the banner was made to accomodate my "EVIL!!!" feeling at that time. Now that I have less "EVILL!!" in me, I'm going to ditch out the dark theme and put up a new one.... which I will think what it is next week! ... or this week.


I'll probably put up more than just rants about my life after this... more = one or two new things...

Oh yeah, I've also put link to my facebook page, if anyone is interested. Be aware though, I make tough comments and lame (sometimes) jokes there.


Now then, time for some breakfast and waiting for my download to finish. I have 2 events to attend to today and I am probably going to be bored to death in one of them...


Cya!

 Yes, I find today to be a weird day...

for me. Of course.


What did I do today?


Went to the groceries and the brother who were supposed to know everything about vegetables gave me

"What? Never heard that..."


And I went


"Hmm.... Hookay... what to do?"


So I brought my mom along to show me (and the bro there) what she asked me to buy earlier.


We both gave our best "Ooooh..."


Yeah, it was weird.


Then my grandma starts telling me stuff about my sister's maid.

I kinda find it boring because grandma hates everyone and loves no one (well, she love herself) so, it's kinda boring when you had to sit just to hear her scold you when you're not the problem....

Luckily my niece wasn't here, so I didn't have to pick her up. Kinda starts to feel like not driving...


Then I pissed off a girl. She posted a weird question, asking for opinions, so I asked her back and she told me to shut up... so yeah..It's kinda funny though because it was her question, and she was mad at me for asking her a question... hehehehehe....

That's a record there. I pissed someone off in 2 sentences. Cool, huh?


Today is a weird day...

Oh yeah, go and watch Zombieland... it's hilarious.

 very very very tired...

or at least that's how I feel every morning these couple of weeks.


I dunno why, 


but the feeling just keep getting stronger, which suggests that I AM ACTUALLY TIRED...


yet when I think about,


I don't really do any hard labor or energy consuming enough to make me feel like sleeping for a whole day...



Maybe it's the constant heavy rain...



or maybe I am that tired...


I dunno.


Anyway,


Been reading blogs today.


Then update my novel... a bit. (yes, writing is hard when you have life pleasures to fend off off you)



Am wondering whether or not I'm going to subscribe to Publisher's Weekly (was that with or without the apostrophe?) 


Joe Abercrombie's book isn't going any faster. I find myself liking to read Logen's part of the journey more than anyone else in the book...


Don't get me wrong, the book is good, it's just that, I feel more attached to Logen and Bayaz and their company than Glokta and General West.... 


If you're interested about what I'm talking about, go wiki it. Or just click here . Or if you like, you can visit Joe Abercrombie's website, here or wiki his name here 


I'm tired...


Bleh.

 say that life sucks...

seriously.


I mean, it will sucks once or twice or more with whatever route you take... because, well, that's life.

If it doesn't sucks, then you're not living.. you're either dead, which would probably sucks even more depending on your deed,


or a zombie, which, can be cool or sucks depending on your POV.


But seriously, if you think about it, who hasn't had life giving them the jackass punch in their life?


Sucks is a part of life, get over it!


Okay....


Now that that's out of the way, 


time for something even more boring.


I think I had enough of driving...


I think..


These past 2 weeks really had me worn out...


Imagine having to go to the market, pick up niece from the kindergarten, send mom to her lessons, send mom to see her physiotherapist..

Everyday...

 I am free of any home work..


YEAY!

My sis had no class today so she's in charge of picking her daughter from school, buy the groceries, take my grandma out to the bank to get her pension and take mom to see her physiotherapist...


oh wait.

damn, I forgot she couldn't take mom...


guess I have to send mom... again...


sigh...


Yes, I am not a 'ligh-bone' person (if you're not a malay, it's the opposite of 'lazy').

Anyway, have been doing some catching up on some of the literary agent's blogs that I subscribed to all the morning...


Updated my novel yesterday, then helped dad with his 'fish project'...

I don't know if I'll be able to update my novel today... I hope I can...


Updated my compilation of short story blog with a new story.


Looked up through Lowyat.net for prices on computer parts... I think I want to upgrade my computer.. but I dunno.. 

 16 Days of no update...


wow...


No, life hasn't really been hectic for me.


It's just that I had too many pleasures in life to find the time to update this blog.


Anyway, 


Now that all the hectic-ness (... is that even a word?) is gone,

I am back to my normal pace, with maybe a little change.


My cute little niece has already started school (she's 3 and yes, that's mighty young) so I probably have to go and pick her up from school.


Mom's having her physiotherapy at the hospital, so I had to send her there every other day.



Other than that, oh yeah, I have to go to the market to help mom with her groceries while she's recuperating.



Other than that, life's like always with me. Write and Write...



I had a flash of new character for my novel yesterday. Wrote it down on me notepad and wondered of more possible plotline for it...


I wonder what'll the end product be... I've so many possibilities, it's mind boggling and funny at the same time.




I am such a weirdo.

Busy weekend...


Kind of...


Okay, not really...


I was just away, like always... balik kampung...


Helped my dad carried all the anak pokok he wanted to plant in his kebun...


Our fish project will probably begin this week... I think.



Mom had her much needed surgery...


She's turning bionic now...


It was a success, so we're all glad for her. She really needed that knee surgery.


I'm still half deaf..... well, maybe not half, but still not fully able to hear like I used to...



Not to mention the feeling of vertigo that's been bugging me ever since I had this ear trouble..


I can hear quite well now, though not really that well.

Oh yeah, I had something quite nice during lunch today.



Ta da!



You won't believe what it's called...


It's the Bangkok Bank Mee Rebus....


It's kinda tasty... tastes like mee rebus, with dal in it...


Anywho, 


Went to see Mom who's in ICU (she just had her operation this evening). She looked groggy... from the anaesthetics


Gave her Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot book to read, she's a fan of Agatha Christie. I was introduced to Agatha Christie by her.


My novel's going great... I think, didn't have the time to write anything though I jotted down some new ideas to put into it...


That's it for today, I guess...

 I mean it.

Being partially deaf is irritating... especially when it happen so sudden, you couldn't get mentally prepared for it...


that is a double whammy...


and it happened to me...


So right now, I am irritated...



Doctor said it is a nerve problem... 

Well, I guess it is, since it gets on my nerve... (^ ____ ^)




okay, it's lame, I got it...



Anyway, so right now, I'm on meds for 2 weeks... hoping to get better before my next appointment...



Bleh...


I hate being partially deaf