I'm watching quite a few new anime, if you're interested, the list is as follows: Tsubasa Chronicle Ah! My Goddess Mahoraba Heartful Days AIR Otogi-jushi Akazukin (just looking)
A Look at a DVD Burner
Recently, I decided to take a good look at the DVD burner I just purchased. It's a Pioneer DVR-109B. The bulk version of Pioneer's A09XLB. Why in the world did I buy this burner? My friend (uranium238) seemed to recommend it a lot. How is it doing? It's doing absolutely fine. I've used it to burn about 9 4x DVD-Rs. I'm pretty confident that my media is good, since it's OEM manufacturer's code shows it's from Taiyo Yuden. Not bad. I'm saving a little more money so I can get a few more DVD+RWs to burn with, but I've realised that burning DVDs it time consuming. To burn and verify a 4x disc takes roughly half an hour. The upside? I don't have to burn as often. I'm finding myself burning about 2 discs every two weeks, and to me, that's a huge time savings. What will become of my leftover CD-Rs? My CD-Rs will likely become places for small stuff like family photos, my family computer backups. (But my user is about 3GBs big, so you know what to think. ;)
Boycott U•Bowl!
Recently, my friends and I decided to make a visit to U•Bowl, which is the new bowling alley in 1 Utama. The result of my visit is my decision to boycott U•Bowl. Why do I say we should boycott this place? OK, now, people who know me, know that I have huge feet (US size 12). The biggest shoe size they have there is 12. The problem? The shoes are actually about a half size smaller than the numbers on the shoes. Therefore, I couldn't wear their shoes. They were gracious enough to refund the money for both the shoe rental and socks. The other thing was that the bowling lanes were slightly more narrow, and slightly shorter than what I thought was normal. The balls of the preferred weight of 8-10 were few are far in between. I had to search for five minutes to find a good 10 ball, and another 5 minutes to find an 8 ball. My friend appeared to like the 8 ball a lot, but then realised that he actually bowled a lot better with a 10. Despite my lack of house shoes, I decided to try bowling in my sandals anyway. I was, of course, impeded greatly by the fact that I had to evade their wardens. It was a game of hiding my sandals. My bowling was as terrible as usual, but it was still fun. I'm still working on how to get the ball to spin fast enough while sliding. Been studying the physics of the game for the two sessions that I've had lately.
The cost of games have been exorbitant - RM6 on weekends per person - per game. It's actually quite bad, but I don't care - doesn't really matter to me - I'm not going there anymore - not with my money, at least. Life is good. Boycott U•Bowl. Have a nice day.
Disclaimer on Freakishness
End Countdown Rant #8 I'm not a freakish person who's always on the top of the class. I'm only ahead of Yam by a miserable tenth of a mark, if that's a mark at all. Sure, I'm good at economics, I'll admit to that. I'll, however, admit that what happened last semester was freakish. For the oblivious, last semester, I got full marks for my microeconomics mid-semester exam. You know what's worse? The lecturers were actually combing through the few scripts that got full marks like hell trying to take a few marks off.
This time, I thought I'd be able to lay low, since I felt my command of macroeconomics was inferior to the more nerdy people in class. (I'm talking about the true freaks that can score nearly 80-90% in midterms. For Management! We have what must be one of the worst lecturers in my course. Of course, Yam just revealed to me that the Marketing lecturer is worse. Of course, I think the Management lecturer takes the cake for being the most boring.)
Then, our Economics lecturer revealed to us in our tutorials that the top few people will have their names printed on the results list. She told us that she would arrange the results according to merit. I went "Oh, shit!" in class when she announced that. My low profile would now be absolutely at the top in her list.
For something like what would have been the whole tutorial, she kept mentioning my name. It was annoying. Then, when she realised that I was in her tutorial, she went yay, because two of the top three were in her tutorial classes. Like Yam, I prefer to remain unnoticed by my lecturers. I should be the unseen, the unknown, the invisible. Unfortunately, I can't be a retard with where I want to go. I need results good enough to make it into the University of Melbourne, Australian National University or Macquarie University to do Actuarial Science. You can't just waltz in those universities doing a supremely difficult course with substandard grades. And of course, that usually means you can't keep a low profile.
You know what the irony of the Economics marks are? The top three people for the midterms were probably the people who paid the least attention in class. The three of us generally sat down and chatted with our friends for the most part. Are we freakish? I don't know. I would have to say we aren't. I believe the true freaks are those who get those crazy 99.7s from SAM. :D
Signing out. ;)
New Category - New Focus
There's a new category now. It's called Magic: the Gathering. I've decided that I like Magic: the Gathering enough to write articles on it. Don't expect articles often, but do expect them to be fun and light. My first new article for this category will actually be on the March bannings in Standard - probably going to be remembered in history as the most powerful bannings in Standard ever - whacking 7 commons and 1 rare out of the running. For now, I've put my favourite deck in the limelight. It'll be the first article in the category, and once my assignments are done - time for me to try explaining why stuff got banned. Of course, I still don't understand why they banned Ravager. Ravager is innocent! :D