long due update
Thursday, June 26, 2008
My parents got invovled in a car accident some time back, when a lorry driver failed to brake in time, ramming my parent-s car from the rear, while causing the car to conversely hit the one in front. No one was hurt, but for some time we used a factory sponsored Toyota Camry, which was quite an interesting ride each time I climbed in. .jpg)
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posted by joseph at 8:09 PM
Thursday, June 26, 2008
This post, coming after a long break from blogging, contains a few unconnected bits. Sorry for the length...
My parents got invovled in a car accident some time back, when a lorry driver failed to brake in time, ramming my parent-s car from the rear, while causing the car to conversely hit the one in front. No one was hurt, but for some time we used a factory sponsored Toyota Camry, which was quite an interesting ride each time I climbed in.
The rear window completely shattered here, leaving wind to blow in and out of the car freely. Others were simply dents. It happened in the middle lane next to The Fullerton, amid the morning commute.
Well, I called acer today, and got through after about 10 mins. To cut things short, I went trough the arduous and deadly boring task of PC recovery. the second time in one month. Bloody hell. My backups, including pictures, photoshop documents, flash files and game patches totalled 15gb, and was much easier to transfer with Gabriel's portable harddisk. It's a time like this that I really do contemplate using a mac. I just thought of a possibility, to stick with this old desktop (the warranty still lasts until next year, sweet, sweet extended warranty.) while getting a mac laptop. Opinions?
Did I mention that I went down to play tennis with Joel today, after close to two weeks, and broke my damn glasses in two? If they don't have a frame that can accomodate my lenses, I'm screwed by 400 dollars. I can't believe this crap. I was wondering, afterwards, what sort of Karmic retribution I got myself this time. My mom says I'm going to have to pay for the replacement myself. for now until tomorrow, hopefully, I will simply ahve to squint.
Moving is going to begin in one month's time, too soon to actually realise the monumental move. I wonder if I'm going to feel a pang of homesickness... I've looked too much at the house in the night when my parents pop by, because often when they do so in the day during the weekend, they spend at least 3 hours there. My god, it's really, really beautiful. I especially love the swimming pool area, which looks something out of a house catalogue. Want to see it? Come help us move! Alternatively, there might be some sort of housewarming a few months later, maybe.
Since it's tiring for my eyes to squint at the screen, I'm going to hold off the computer, again, and go read my newly borrowed book, Pet Semetary. Here's the nicest line i've read in the book, from until where I''ve progressed to. I really love it's metaphorical nature.
"The grass in the back field was almost waist-high and now there was golden-rod,that late-summer gossip that comes to tattle on autumn every year." --Stephen King
Emo teens should take a leaf from this book.
Did I mention that I went down to play tennis with Joel today, after close to two weeks, and broke my damn glasses in two? If they don't have a frame that can accomodate my lenses, I'm screwed by 400 dollars. I can't believe this crap. I was wondering, afterwards, what sort of Karmic retribution I got myself this time. My mom says I'm going to have to pay for the replacement myself. for now until tomorrow, hopefully, I will simply ahve to squint.
Moving is going to begin in one month's time, too soon to actually realise the monumental move. I wonder if I'm going to feel a pang of homesickness... I've looked too much at the house in the night when my parents pop by, because often when they do so in the day during the weekend, they spend at least 3 hours there. My god, it's really, really beautiful. I especially love the swimming pool area, which looks something out of a house catalogue. Want to see it? Come help us move! Alternatively, there might be some sort of housewarming a few months later, maybe.
Since it's tiring for my eyes to squint at the screen, I'm going to hold off the computer, again, and go read my newly borrowed book, Pet Semetary. Here's the nicest line i've read in the book, from until where I''ve progressed to. I really love it's metaphorical nature.
"The grass in the back field was almost waist-high and now there was golden-rod,that late-summer gossip that comes to tattle on autumn every year." --Stephen King
Emo teens should take a leaf from this book.
posted by joseph at 8:09 PM