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Money Cannot Buy You Happiness, Yeah Right

x0dus — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:47:48 +0000

They say money can’t buy you happiness, yeah right. In the last week, my Sager laptop finally arrived from the US after a wait of 2 weeks, something that will be with me for a long long while in uni. Not to mention the barrage of Converse and Vans sneakers I got as well.

Shoes can be a man’s best friend too (:

Silver Converse Sneakers

White Vans Sneakers!

Gold Converse Sneakers The box containing my companion for the next 4 years in uni, and not to mention my roommate when I am living on campus.

The Sager laptop is built as a gaming laptop, not a machine that you can use to wow your friends with it’s sleek edges and cool design, this is a minimalistic, no-frills, performance machine. Hence the size.

A closer look at how thick it really is, at least twice the thickness of my current table.

The problem that most gaming laptop has to deal with is the extreme heat, Sager laptops work around the problem with huge gigantic air vents at the back, not to mention at the bottom of the laptop as well.

Picture taken of Assassin’s Creed II at 1920 X 1080 resolution, screen was upgraded for full HD, and everything looks as sharp as it could be. No performance issues at all, I maintain a steady 40+ FPS at 1920X1080 reso for most mordern games at full anti-aliasing settings and everything turned up to the max.
The importance specs are as follows: ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 1GB, Core i7 720 processor,

Screenshot taken by Fraps on my laptop for the game Just Cause II, with every graphic setting turned up to the max.

The person who said money can’t buy you happiness, must have left out the words “just kidding”.

Hilarious Mockery of Apple And Aces

x0dus — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:14:43 +0000

Recently I started watching the Daily Show again, and Jon Stewart is still as funny as ever. On last Thursday’s show, they mocked Apple openly regarding their controversy with the Gizmodo incident. Watch the video for a good laugh, I guarantee.

Also in other news, 4 days, Over 600 pages to study, CMFAS Module 9, Aced.

Round 2: Jason Versus CMFAS Module 9

x0dus — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:04:04 +0000

So today, I officially ended my work with Health Sciences Authority as their website designer. If you are interested in the work I’ve done for them, take a look at my portfolio. In many ways it was the ideal job for me because, I finally get to know how does it feel like to get paid for something you enjoy doing.

In the end, it was a little sad saying bye to the laptop I’ve been working on for 3 months, will I ever work in an IT related job, full-time? I’ve no idea. It was a great experience, and the people I’ve worked with made my job so much easier by being really friendly and approachable.

Enter a new challenge.

So it’s gonna be 4 days, over 700 pages to study.

So I passed CMFAS Module 5 Last Monday, and due to negligence, and me falling sick, I am left with 4 days to study for CMFAS Module 9. I am so dead.

On a brighter note, as a reward to myself for ending 3 months worth of work, I burnt a deep hole in my pocket and purchased the Canon Ixus 210s, a more detailed review on it later. The picture above, is taken with my new camera, with a supposedly 3D effect, and I am really having tons of fun exploring the camera, but right now I am pretty sure I don’t want to waste the 100 SGD spent on registering the CMFAS exam. Mugging, here we go again.

My First Business Card

x0dus — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:56:22 +0000

Click on images for a larger view.

Interesting story, about how I decided to get my own name card. After coughing for like an eternity, I finally decided to take a day off and head down to look up my old family doctor in the East of Singapore, to my surprise he is no longer working at the clinic anymore. In his place was a new doctor and well he was a really friendly guy, and I was like the only patient in the whole clinic, so we chatted a bit.

He eventually asked me what was I working as, and I told him I designed websites for Health Sciences Authority and he became really interested in the work I do. It turns out, a while ago, he was thinking of setting up his own website, and asked if I would be interested in helping him set up his website for a fee. During then, I simply wrote down the URL of my online portfolio on a piece of paper.

Only then, did it struck me how important it is to have a name card or business card. It makes you come across as more credible, trustworthy, and of course, helps so much in networking. Perhaps I am a little young for a business card, but I am going to give it a shot anyway, after all I am probably one of the 100,000 graduates walking around in Singapore in a few years time, one must differentiate himself.

So apparently, white does not count as a colour when designing business cards, so hence my design only used a total of two colours, yellow and black, and I am about to send them for printing.

I am rather excited about this step I am making, because after some serious consideration, I realised that I had to differentiate myself from the thousands of BBA holders out there in a few year time, and I think web designing will be the gateway to that.

Do let me know, if you have any suggestions or thoughts about making it better, drop a comment or talk to me directly (: