Finally setup my new system and installed necessary programs into it. Spent almost the whole afternoon and evening cleaning my table, shifting the things around, configuring my pc, downloading, installing programs etc. And just to test out my new system, I downloaded Cabal and installed it. Added Tofu (Yuan Su) into my buddy list, who invited me into his guild, Illuminari. Pretty awesome graphics. Now level 6 already. But I still think the gameplay and interface makes me quite giddy. Don't really like to play games with all the 3D stuff. Just trying out my new graphics card.
Pretty tired now, cos went for tennis with Boon Leong and Kim Mong. Haven't seen Kim Mong for ages, but he still looks the same. Haven't played tennis for decades, and I'm even noober than before. Wahaha! And I got tired easily, even cycling to Boon Leong's place was pretty exhausting for me. Argh old liao! Last time cycle around Singapore also no kick. ZZZzzz...
14th March 2008, Friday
Went to DSTA: Big boss gave a little speech before handling us our bonus letters. What a waste of time. Haha!
Went to DotA: First time I drove there, cos one reason was Guanming was already at H.I.G.H and couldn't drive me there. Another was I had to meet up those guys at 12 noon the next day and I thought I should just drive there myself and don't join them for supper after the games, so that I reach home earlier and can sleep more. Usually I will end up reaching home at 7am on Saturday morning.
15th March 2008, Saturday
Met up with Jiahao and Wing Kin to explore a new place, called Old School. It was actually a school which got converted into office space, restaurant, shops and a photo exhibition gallery called 2902 Gallery. Our motive to go there was for the photo exhibition. Jiahao just got a DSLR and is very enthusiastic about photography now, plus we just happened to see some advertisements talking about photo exhibitions at the Old School, therefore we decided to go there to take a look. Kinda interesting place. The photo exhibition is the 2nd such exhibition organized by 2902 Gallery. The next one starts on the 4th of April, so I guess we'll be going there again. The whole of Old School gives a feeling of art is in the air, haha! And I think i'll be quite a nice place to chill out at night. Maybe can try going there at night and see how it's like.
After walking around the place, we went for lunch at this Malay restaurant right outside Labyrinth. I always see lots of people dining there and wondered whether it's cos of their food. I ordered chicken bryani @ $4.50. Tastes pretty good. A huge serving of yellow rice and half a chicken in thick curry sauce. Heavenly!
After lunch we went on to Sim Lim Square, where Hongming met us to walk around together. I eventually bought a whole new system: Core 2 Duo E8200 processor with MSI motherboard, 2GB RAM, POV 8500GT graphics card, 160GB HDD. Haven't bought a new pc since year 1 or 2 in uni. Finally got a new desktop after so long. My lappy's parts are already coming out. Jiahao and Wing Kin also got their own stuff. Hongming merely tagged along to see see. After all the shopping, Jiahao and I took bus 23 home. I had to use one hand to carry the CPU with all the stuff in it, while the other hand carrying a plastic bag with all the leftovers like keyboard, mouse, speakers, empty boxes etc. Luckily it wasn't too long a distance from the bus-stop back to my doorstep, but it was rather tiring nevertheless. Mummy was dumbfounded when she realized I actually carried everything back by bus. Haha.
