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• I'm wondering how my luck will be this year looking for an actuarial job. #
• I'm trying to find time to play Assassin's Creed 2. Yet somehow I ended up playing Death Smiles instead. #
• Anyone else in Australia find problems accessing cfgt.net? #
• Nothing is happening. Well, nothing interesting. #
• Upgrading my phone. #
• @mitheran Upgrading my phone's OS actually. LOL in reply to mitheran #
• Lazing around doing nothing important. Or maybe it is something important. #
• Looking into ways to fix my xbox 360. #
• Finally sitting down to watch Darker than Black. #
• Time to upgrade my notes! With 368 pages of new stuff! #

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Let's take a look at my goals for 2009 :-

1. Get my photography up to scratch – I still suck at taking photos, be it visualizing photos, or even just getting shots with my ultrasharp 50mm prime.

2. Learn how to solve a megaminx – I’m quite sure this won’t be too big a problem, but hey, you’d never know.

3. Get a job – Now that I’ve graduated and have decided to not study any more for a while, it’s time to enter the working world and find a job. The economic downturn won’t make this easy, but I certainly hope I’ll be employed before the latter half of 2009.

4. Learn how to solve the 5×5×5 cube without a formula sheet – LOL.

5. Get my 3×3×3 solving skill into the sub-40 second range. (I’m now in sub-60.)

6. Put way more stories on Pressyo.

7. Study smarter! Work harder! Sleep more! (LOL)

Here's the results as of 31st December 2009:
1. My photography is a little better, but it's still pretty awful overall. I have little skill in using a lot of my gear, and looks like I'll still be learning my gear more in 2010 than improving actual photography skill. I have gained a new piece of gear of 2009 – a Nikon SB800 – which opens up a whole new world of possibilities. (for lighting)

2. I can now solve a megaminx – so goal accomplished!

3. I do have a job – but I wasn't employed until the latter half of 2009 – and it's not actuarial, sadly – but 2010 is a new year, and I have hope.

4. I could solve my 5x5x5 without a formula sheet for about a month – now I've forgotten how to solve it again though.

5. My 3x3x3 solve is surprisingly now sub-30 seconds. I'm impressed it got that fast considering all I did was focus on making myself faster, not learning anything new.

6. I put a lot of stories on Pressyo – but eventually I got tired of it, and stopped since we're now going into a redevelopment stage again.

7. My study skills have gotten better – I'm now way better at deciding what I need to focus on – no more tending towards what I like to do – which was an awful habit.

In my opinion, I got about half of the goals – and surprisingly, some programming on a Hecatomb card game program went through.

I haven't really thought much about goals for this year, but here's a few:

1. I think I probably just really want to find a better job (at least a more interesting one).

2. Blog more – already got a backlog of stuff to post – just haven't prepared them for posting on the site – I think once a week is realistic, but I'd rather have a post up twice a week. Considering I'm now working, three times a week doesn't work any more. Twittering every day might just work though.

3. Pass more exams. I screwed up one exam last year pretty badly, and I'm not keen on failing any more.

That's it. Seems pretty boring – but I think the 3 goals I've set are massive ones.

• replanning out the Fantasy of War. #
• hates KL traffic and KL public transport during peak hour. #
• EXAM CRAZY! #
• So many past year papers – so many practice questions! #
• Well, I guess I have a better chance of passing CT6 than CT8, by not by much. #
• New MythBusters! #
• having time series dreams… #
• is watching Mythbusters! #
• waiting for someone to open the office. LOL #
• is trying to be cheapskate by building pauper Magic decks. #
• has built a pauper Magic deck and is impressed with its ability. #
• is sorting out his Magic cards. There's too damn many of them! #
• is eagerly awaiting plenty of upcoming video games. #
• is building Magic decks again. #
• is fond of Thopter Foundry. #
• is wondering why people are so crazy about Baneslayer Angel. Then again, many many years ago he was thinking the same about Wrath of God. #
• Been building random Magic decks and playing funny games. I think I may write about Magic again soon enough. #
• Been building loads upon load of decks. #
• I've actually got a few posts ready – but I need to prepare images and unfortunately I'm busy in the meantime. #
• I'll probably start after New Year or Christmas. Sadly, preparing images for posts takes longer than writing posts. #
• Upgraded my blog's WordPress software again. Yay! #

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