As I write this now, i'm having a splitting headache from lack of either proper sleep or just too much gaming at once. Well, it's been a LONG time since I properly had a long gaming session since I got my mac and my pc was officially retired to home-use.
That's right, exams are over and I just can't wait to begin my long,long holiday of enjoying life to the fullest. That's really just sitting back at home with good broadband (hopefully) downloading anime and stuff, as well as ps2 gaming. Again, I have another introduction to make. Meet my newest obssession: the SONY PlayStation 2.

Some of you might wonder why have I brought this ancient console at this time when next-gen consoles are hitting the shelves at full blast. Let me tell you that the games are really the reason: the list is just too long. However, I've shortlisted a few of them to play (and hopefully finish before the semester reopens). Again, Grandia is the catalyst. It reminds me of the days when I brought the DreamCast just so that I can play Grandia 2 (which was eventually ported to the PC and PS2, grrrr).

The Final Fantasy series is a must-play. There's three for this console: X, X-2 and 12...wow, that's going to take a very long time. So I think I'll just stick to Grandia 3 for now. The headache that I'm having right now means that I won't be able to truly enjoy this wonderful RPG, thus for the night I just had some Kingdom Hearts, which is also a highly-acclaimed game. G3 will have to wait until I'm at my best state.

This 10 weeks is going to be a blast. The exams, while being the most relaxed exam so far, has drained me almost completely of my will to live, coupled with staying at a god-forsaken hostel didn't help much either. How long have I waited so that I could just get home and finally get back to my bum routine. So you'll excuse me if I didn't write much because I'm too stuck with my new machine. Well, it needs rest too, every 5 hours then rest 2 hours.

Talking about rest, guess I'll help myself. Later.

What have i been up to since getting my mac? lots...and lots more. In fact, the one habit i inherited from the mac is the workaholicness. I've been up in assignments and presentations I didn't even remember my base cravings for gaming. Until recently, I've yet to suffer any withdrawal symptoms from not gaming. Well. the fingers get a little twitchy now and then, making me tap the keys for no reason just to get some 'feedback'.

My birthday came and went without any events, exactly the way that I wanted it to be. I heard rumors about my mac being targeted for robbery but thankfully a good friend alerted me so that proper counter-measures can be taken. Since then, I've also decided to lock the OS'es with my usual password just for good measure. Somebody is to thank for this, you know who yourself.

What about my birthday itself you may ask, well turns out there was a group of friends willing to go all the way to Autocity to party, much to my delight. The five of us went to a total of three places there: in order, Halo Cafe, Swensens and SOHO. I think that although the food leaves much to be desired, the desert and club atmosphere more than makes up for it. Spent quite some money there, but I was ready of course. There was yet another round in Sushi King,Ipoh at a much later with my traditional gang, haha, good ol' times.

Right now, I'm in the middle of a 'fake' vacation. Yeah, fake as in I'm back, but there's always a nagging feeling to go read up my exam subjects. At time of writing, my brain is cooked from process control, there's always a saturation point when it comes to its many intricate formulae that will confuse even those that went to every single class. Ok, so I'm a regular attendant but it doesn't matter because the questions are *not* covered in class. It's theory all the way, a bit of twist and you're screwed. I've seen the horror of my unability to answer the test 6 weeks back and even now with the notes in *front* of me, I'm still dumb-founded.

But enough about work, Mac's can have fun as well. Ok, so I've relied on Boot Camp to get xp to play the games. But hey, it's still on the mac nonetheless. I've found myself using windows a lot because lo and behold for some reason I can't get no internet in college using OS X. Tried everything, wifi, ip v6 and so forth, nada. Even my linux friends have this same problem. So it's mac for work, music and some videos, then over to XP for anime, games and onlining. Oh, recently I have to reinstall XP on the mac because for some reason upgrading my bootcamp drivers from 1.1.2 to 1.2 corrupted an important dll file. Sure sucks to do this but at least I can repartition my harddisk again. Bad windows gets only 25GB's this time around, while my OS X will have that extra 7GB all to itself for being such a reliable doggy.

With that said, I'm currently looking forward to some *real* holiday. Exams is always a downer but that's what makes the break after that so worthwhile. Sure, I may spend about 95% of it at home, but hey, I'm happy. For sure I'll pop down to the apple shops to look for stuff for my macbook. High on the list is probrably the mini-dvi adapter, so that I can project to a larger screen or for future presentation. I'm very sure that I'm going to need it with more projects that need to be presented and I really wanna use my own laptop for it.

Ok, signing off now. F1 quali will start soon, and i'm not missing that for anything (that I can think of, at least).