hols!

thanks heavens, the holidays are here. how i wished they had come a bit later, but they're here already, so stop complaining.


apologise for the lack of updates so far. been busy with exams and the like. so many people have been asking me to update, so i shall. it's been hectic, to say the least. exams came and went just like that, but it was hell while it lasted. i have never been so stressed out or hardworking ever before. i just hope all that hard work pays off if not i'm in deep shit, and my results will be in deep shit, and i can just go transfer to nursing instead.


found a job as a stocktaker for Popular. pay's kinda cool, with enough cash to get me a new MP3 player. not a harddisk-based one, but flash memory instead. i've never been an advocate of harddisk players. true, they store heckuva lot more songs (who listens to 10,000 songs?!), but they have reliability issues. as much protection as the manufacturers say they have incorporated, the majority of harddisk players don't have adequate protective measures in place. as a result the read-write head on the disk surface keeps scratching it and damaging it hence. don't forget, the majority of MP3 player users just don't give a damn about babying the player. as long as it works, fine. as a result you can see people who just bought a 60gb iPod scream 3 months later because it went to MP3 player heaven because they used it as a tennis ball. truth is, the harddisk-based players require much more care than flash-based ones, but people don't know this fact and don't care too. Flash memory is the only way to go. whoopee.


oh yes! got my new electone. how cool is that. it looks really neat. much higher than my older one, naturally, it gives one a more vantage, dominating position over the keyboard. love the feeling so much. and my songs come out much more realistically now, which is testament to the power of the instrumentation. even the guitar sounds real. on my old electone, it sounded about as real as plucking a stretched string over an empty tissue box. totally out of it. i got it from my teacher that i can order books online, but, wait for it, the cost of each book is S$60. and that's not all. i have to order in groups of 3 books. so it will total up to S$180. my dad is so going to kill me.


having some issues now that i didn't in the past. it's coming back now, and i don't like the feeling. it's a bad feeling, and it's dragging me down.