Well well, I know it’s been a really long time since the last post, so I decided to update a bit. Considering that I’ve no more excuse not to blog anymore, haha.

It really does feel like a long time cause wordpress made some changes since the last time I was here; the writing interface looks different. I think it looks quite nice, except that this writing box is a little small width-wise.

I guess I really like wordpress, and I can’t really see why anyone would prefer livejournal to wordpress (cough cough Cheryl). I mean, wordpress has a really orderly feel to it, with almost any function I could think of. Plus, free upload space is pretty good. Haha.

On the other hand, livejournal keeps lagging on my comp and refusing to load. Can’t even visit other people’s blog sometimes.

Okay, so that was the random rant on blog providers. Haha.

I guess the holidays so far has been great; I think there’s the right balance between going out with people and staying at home slacking. And the interesting cross that is slacking at other people’s house (free bowling at Sarah’s and wii at Margaret’s!) and slacking at home with other people (playing wei qi at home and getting trashed by Nick).

So yeah, great holiday so far.

Oh yeah, and of course my internship at Drew & Napier. Haha, I think my friends expected me to tell them more stuff, but I feel really constrained cause of that confidentiality thing I had to agree to. So, let’s just say it was a really eye opening experience. Haha.

Okay, this is such a random post, but I suppose I do kinda want to remember the last holiday before NS. So, the only way to remember for sure is to record down as much as possible! I shall hope to blog soon about some random thoughts I’ve been having, as opposed to this post being about random events.

So, have finally completed the Dune series, all freaking 14 books of them. Think I’m going to give the extras a miss. Brian Herbert and his friend doesn’t really cut it for me.

In particular, I did not like the way the last book went. I’ve always been tolerating the different (in my opinion inferior) writing styles of the non-originals, since the storyline’s pretty good. But the story rather fell flat for me in the last one.

Well, shan’t spoil anyone with details though it’s highly unlikely that anyone here reads Dune. Hahaha.

On another note, I love playing old comp games that I dig out from really long ago. They’re still great fun.

Plus, I hate internet TV. It sucks.

You know, I used to get annoyed at those anti-piracy ads which tell you not to tolerate bad quality. I think they’re pretty dumb since there are really really good quality pirated stuff out there and all those ads are doing is drawing attention to people that not all pirated stuff are bad quality.

But those on the internet certainly are. I mean, the lagging, the blurness, they really pain my eyes. Plus, I gave up watching Hana Kimi after the thing would only work sometimes. I need the certainty that if I plan to watch something I’d be able to, not rely my entire day’s happiness on the whim of my stupid clunking computer/IT technology in general.

Which just brings to mind how freaking lucky Americans are. They have Hulu, which means free shows on the internet which are of good quality (so I’ve heard on Techcrunch). And so many good shows are from America anyway, they probably easily get it on TV. Meanwhile, the Chinese are clamouring to get into this American world of entertainment, as shown by how so many of these video sites are Chinese. Some are pretty good, and some suck. But I’m just glad I know Chinese and can navigate around these sites, albeit quite slowly.

Unfortunately, internet TV is all I have if I want to squeeze all my shows before I go to NS.

So, what else.

Well, plans for the future are many, but I shall try to drag my ass to go to the library to return some overdue books plus borrow new ones on wei qi. Hopefully I will recover that strength I had six months ago when I could actually win Nick. Hahaha.

Anyone has great computer games to recommend? I’m playing Heroes of Might and Magic IV and Age of Empires II,  which are great fun. Wanted to play Civilization IV, but the clunking machine that is my computer can’t run it properly.

Ah well, I really don’t want this holiday to end so soon. So much fun to be had, so little time.

I think this is a great reminder that the only purpose of money is to be spent. No point having money if you don’t consume. No point working your ass off for loads of cash if you don’t enjoy yourself spending it.

In Mr Cook’s words, “a balance of payment surplus is not fun.” Producing output (hence earning income) is not fun. Consumption is fun. Standard of living = level of consumption.

Time to consume even more! Yay for hedonism!