又出現了

I have not disappeared...


Went to the IT Show at Suntec on its first day, Thursday, to recce the grounds... This time I wanted to get a graphics card, cpu cooler and a new power supply to power these devices...
Though it was only the first day, it was already quite packed with people...

The IT show this year is very disappointing - there wasn't much choices... I wanted to get a GeForce 9600GT and there's only offerings from Palit and XFX... The XFX version was very expensive and the Palit version is only slightly cheaper than usual... Larry and I decide to head home and go back again on Sunday in hope of a price drop...

Friday was one of the worst days of life; I felt even worse than when I failed my A'levels... My mum found bed bugs all over my bed when changing sheets... In case anyone else has this misconception, "Bedbugs have been erroneously associated with filth in the mistaken notion that this attracts them." - Wikipedia. The most probable source we can think of is the budget hotel in Batam where I stay when I was there... That hotel certainly isn't very clean and is very possible to be the source...

My mood was very bad as I was at a loss... My bed, my comfort zone, had been invaded and I am being kept out of it... The mattress and the bed frame had to go, my bedroom isolated for at least a week and me banished to the sofa... I'm sorry for anyone that I have offended on this day...

Went to the arcade at Lot 1 on Saturday with an itch to play Initial-D again; miss my RX-8 somewhat... Entered the arcade and realised something different about the Initial-D machine, it writes 5 instead of 4 on its title!!! Didn't hear any news about the Arcade Stage 5 coming... Since I'll need to change to the new card, I might as well choose a new car as well (I didn't know you can import data from Stage 4)... This time, I wanted to choose a Nissan Silvia, a car that I'll wanna get in the near future... I would had bought the S13 in real life but the S15 definitely looked better, thus I chose the S15 instead (the countdown timer was pretty fast and didn't give me much time to really think it through)...

I battled the first opponent which coincidentally is the easiest one and almost lost... The shifting points of the S15 was very different from the RX-8; either that or it's due to the different game mechanics in this version... Played around 10 games and still couldn't really control the car the way I want... Though changing to another machine with a better steering wheel definitely helped...

Sunday came and I headed to Suntec once again... This time, the place was totally packed with people even though it only opened 20 minutes ago at 12pm... I squeezed through the packs and headed straight for the 6th level... There wasn't that much people at this level yet and it certainly helps that I already know what I want and where to find them...

Went to the previous identified booths and realised that the prices have not changed at all except for the thumbdrive!!! What a wasted trip... Nevertheless, I bought the Palit GeForce 9600GT, power supply & Sandisk Cruzer Skin Micro 4GB...

When I finally got my hands dirty and play with my new toys, I realised that the Palit Geforce 9600GT does not support SLI!!! Crap... Maybe that explains the cheaper price... Oh well... Its powerful enough as it is now... By the time I need to get a second card to pair it I'll just buy a more powerful single card then... After 2 SLI motherboards, I realised that getting SLI MBs for future expansion is not really a wise decision...