While the rest of the world is busy jollying, preparing for New Year's Eve, here I am, blogging away while I'm waiting for yet another piece of 3D to render.
Looking back at my 2006 New Year's Resolutions:
1-Achieve my financial target (i.e getting filthy rich-yea rite!)
I may be slightly less broke now, but I'm waaay off mark from being filthy rich.Points awarded to self: 0.2/12-Reduce people bashing
Cannot lah. Not when you are exposed to JB drivers and TV shows like MMB and Cornetto Love Perhaps.Points awarded to self: 0/13-Reduce the amount of items that I can possibly destroy.
A slight reduction, I think. Other than the toilet flush handle (which was kinda flimsy anyway), and someone's car, I think I have been pretty careful this year (or at least that's what I would like to think, I don't care!)Points awarded to self: 0.9/14-Be a 3D Artist God.
Okay, I may not have reached God-like levels yet (dammit, I should set my expectations lower), but I finally managed to render an almost realistic looking 3D this morning. Yeap, on the last day of the year! Points awarded to self: 0.6/1 (Must be modest a bit la, notchet reached God-like level)5-Do something about my wardrobe so that clients wont see me as a kid/aunty.
Sigh. I did do something to my wardrobe, but not enough. If I were to do a whole revamp, I would not have even scored 0.2 for resolution #1.Points awarded to self: 0.01/16-Learn mandarin. Good enough for me to be able to carry a decent conversation with a hawker seller without having them ask whether i'm chinese.
I can now sing TWO mandarin songs as compared to last year's ONE song. And hawkers have stopped asking me about my race.Points awarded to self: 0.5/1TOTAL SCORE: 2.21/6
That's like 36.8%.
Damn, if I were to base my score with the normal grading in schools, I would have gotten an F.
Eeyer.
My dear 17 inch crt monitor,
Please wake up. I really need you. Please, please don't die yet. I know you are old and your time is almost up, but PLEASE don't give up just yet. I need you for just one more day (okay, i ALWAYS say that) but i always meant it with all my heart!
Mr cpu would be very sad and dissapointed if you left us all, just like that. He is there, all started up, ready to go, waiting for you. He fought a battle and almost had to go for good (choi!), if you can remember clearly, but he bravely overcame it.
Please do not be upset by Mr old vaio laptop (may he rest in peace). He was already ancient when he came to us, and I guess the Malaysian weather was just not agreeable with him (after being in Japan for so long). Besides, his chain-smoking, coffee-drinking companion just abandoned him like that!
If there is a computer God out there, PLEASE let my monitor live!
From your very sad and depressed companion,
AO
My money is draining like water this month.
I am trying to console myself by thinking that the bulk of it is spent on books. Which is true!
But STILL!!!
I finally got to install Autodesk Viz 2007 (being the kiasu person that I am, I MUST have the BEST and LATEST! muahaha!) only to realise that the rendering concept is SO FREAKING DIFFERENT from Autodesk Viz 4!
I almost died trying to finish the Esprit presentation.
Dah la it takes so bloody long to render one piece of shit, it turned out so ugly some more!
So that's why I decided to part with RM200++ for this.
I hope it will help me in my quest of becoming a 3D God. Hahah! (One can't help but wish right?)
Anyway, an interesting note about MPH bookstores. If you are living in some ulu place (like me), and you can't get the book you want, you don't really have to go ALL the way to KL or something. All you have to do is ask the person if there is one available in another outlet and if there is, they will courier the book to you, at no extra charge!
Alternatively, you could always order through Amazon.com.
Am still kicking myself for not doing that as it would have costed me approximately RM70 less but I am not about to admit that to the bf.
Besides, the MPH girl actually remembers me and knows my name! (My life is so sad, MPH girl knows my name also so excited). And anyway I can always deduct from my income tax. Right?
Anyway it has been ages since Stephen King last published a horror novel, so when I saw Cell I just HAD to get it. Some more it was so brand new, with really nice sharp edges and not a crease on the cover. And it had a 15% discount on it. And after conversion (I got it from Singapore), it was still slightly cheaper than here.
And then there was this book that I have been eyeing for quite awhile.
MPH was having a 20% discount!
And then I saw TIME having an article on design and styles (with additional pull-out!) one week and another week it was about monkeys and human.
So,
+
+
+ 2 TIME mags = RM 350++
SOB!
So to those of you who are expecting xmas gifts from me, dream on la eh! Haha! But if you feel like giving me gifts, I don't mind. Heh heh.
Was chatting with an ex colleague about her housemate, mr underwear. The reason we call him mr underwear is because he doesn't seem to bother taking out his undies from the washing machine. So gross rite?
Ex-colleague says:
and my brother is probably envious of mr. underwear cause mr. underwear gets to do a managerial job from start. no need to go through all the nitty-gritty work
me says:
but he sounds like an ass
me says:
lol mr underwear is an ass
Ex-colleague says:
he is an ass lah
Ex-colleague says:
hahaha
me says:
an ass who cant park properly
Ex-colleague says:
yeah.
me says:
ihv not even met him and im already calling him an ass
me says:
u make me say bad things la
me says:
and xmas is coming!
Ex-colleague says:
its ok. my mom's good friend also thinks mr. underwear is an ass without having met him
me says:
LOL!
Ex-colleague says:
you know, mr. underwear offered to drive me back to kl
me says:
wooo!!!
me says:
just u? what about ur bro?
Ex-colleague says:
yeah lor. just me. he didn't care about my brother
Ex-colleague says:
i said my brother couldn't take leave to go back for christmas
me says:
he is hitting on u!
Ex-colleague says:
he's an idiot
me says:
lol! ass and idiot
me says:
can it get any worse?
Ex-colleague says:
hahaha and a dork, maybe
Ex-colleague says:
he looks dorky too
me says:
dont follow him back for this xmas!
Ex-colleague says:
i won't! i rather take the coach
So much for the xmas spirit. Haha.
I can be so mean sometimes.
I broke my toilet flush handle. Again.
I'm coughing like crazy right now, contaminating the laptop's screen with my tainted saliva. And I sound like a man who wants to be a woman.
"Abang nak bergembira malam ni?"
Hehehe.
Actually, it's not very funny when you're trying to explain things to the contractor, who cant understand english well (and the drawing, for that matter), who requests for you to speak mandarin and at the same time, trying to suppress your cough (and wishing you could just scratch your throat with your bare hands goddammit!!).
Anyway.
Things that irks me:
1- Bragging ex-coursemates.
2- Ex-bosses who purposely forgets to pay.
3- Coughing and sore throat.
I have been advised by the doctor to stop talking too much if I want to heal faster. I started to laugh out loud.
He wasn't joking.
And as I glance wistfully at all that glorious keropok ikans sitting on my mom's kitchen counter, I kept thinking, how the heck am I going to survive tomorrow's consultant meeting?
Btw, someone gave me a new toy to play with. It takes nice pictures and I've set Metalicca's Nothing Really Matters as my ringtone. Haha! I so like. :D
Insert 3D Viz CD.
*Click, click, type, click.
Wait. Runs to laptop to chat, surf.
Runs back to PC.
Crack. Starts software to check. Shuts down.
Remove CD.
Insert AutoCAD CD.
Repeat *.
Insert Photoshop CD.
Repeat *.
Insert Vectorworks CD.
Repeat *.
Do as much work as possible before the PC decides to die again.
Repeat whole process if it does.
