Follow-up

And so the day passes, and my external hard disk digital storage capacity has just increased from 320+500+640=1460 to 2960 o_O. Let's see how long I take to fill this baby up.

Sim Lim Square was fun, it's always fun to go there if you have a clear objective of what you want to buy, and you have clear means (read: enough cash) to achieve your objective. So in an hour or two, the haul was a 22inch monitor, printer ink, and a new 1.5tb hard disk. More on each article of purchase will be said below:

There is hardly any cutthroat competition in SLS with regards to computer monitors. This is because there are only a few standard brands, and it's some damn hugeass piece of equipment that only certain shops can stock. Then the original manufacturer probably also set a price for it to be sold at, so no one bothers to vary the retailing price. Checking with 3-5 shops, what I found was that --- the brands, the models, the advertisements, the freebies and most importantly the price <-- everything is the same between shops. So i decided to go for the shop that is most convenient and looks least dodgy. They gave me a slight discount cause I paid cash, yay.

It's a powerful feeling, knowing that you have money and soon will not have that money, but in its place you'll have some item that would be worth that amount of money, while the item's utility will be much higher than whatever amount of money you have, if you do not consider opportunity costs and how many plates of chicken rice (I don't know why, but I used to use this as a reference to everything I buy) you can get with that amount of money (or how many months Jesmagicaltrevormond can survive on that money back in his hometown if he uses $5 a month =D). In other words, retail therapy is powerful.

Going back home and setting it up, I realized that with the new DVI cable (that came freeee), my resolution possibilities have just reached new heights, and I was happy to see the iddle widdle icons being so tiny, and having to move my mouse so freaking far to reach the top right hand of the screen after clicking stuff on the btm left hand of the screen... etc. Until my dad woke up and said the stuff were too freaking small and I changed it back to what it was on the old screen, except that there is a little more space at the sides. O wells it's still nice.

On a related note: Anyone looking for a 17 inch LCD monitor, the squarish kind, that is fully functional except for slightly irritating horizontal bands of light and dark flowing down the screen? To elaborate on the slight defect... Imagine setting brightness at 40%, and setting brightness at 70%. Then imagine dividing the screen into 2cm thick horizontal bands, then imagine every other band being at 40% brightness, and the rest at 70% brightness. Then imagine this thing "flowing" down the screen at a speed of about 3cm a second... Okay lol, irritating but bearable, but now that its gone it does not need to be beared anymore! yay!

As for printer inks, its really highly amusing when you go to a shop in singapore, and ask "Hey, I got canon MP145 printer and I need ink, do you have original ink?" and the person's immediately response is "No". Only at sim lim square do you get shops that do NOT stock original ink and stuff (actually there's this shop at my neighbourhood who also doesnt stock original ink but o wells). So I bought 4 bottles (with 1 bottle freeeee) of dubious ink refill, which comes with complementary syringes and long metal pointy parts.

Going home and after figuring how to do-it-yourself refill printer ink, I have come away with these few insights/stuff/reflections:
1. After spending 20 mins playing with syringes and getting ink all over my fingers, I feel:
a) Like a druggie clearing evidence while washing the syringes
b) Like I have just voted for some random election cause I have UNREMOVABLE ink all over my fingers (because I didnt wash the ink away in time... ), people who read this blog and see my tmr or anytime in the next week can gimme a high-five.
2. When wanting to get more ink, you can either:
a) Spend $30 and get original ink
b) Spend $10 and get someone to refill your ink for you (one use only)
c) Spend $10 and get to refill your ink yourself for the next year or so, assuming your printer does not explode from your shoddy workmanship
Note: Please choose wisely when considering option c.
3. Please ensure that any pets, especially dogs, stay FAR FAR away from you as you meddle with ink. Don't worry nothing much happened to my dog while I was refilling the ink.

As for hdd, 1.5tb is effectively 1.36tb... YOU BUGGERS CHEATED ME OF 140gigs of goodness =( (actually I knew this would happen but it's cathartic to complain about stuff)

Life is good

Had a good night's (and morning's and afternoon's) sleep till 3+pm today, then slacked the whole day. Was suppose to go out to STGCC but o wells, camping at home is fun. Spent the day catching up on anime from Summer 2009 and more - Umi monogatari ep 1 is boring, princess lover is awesome, sengoku basara (not from summer 09 but included) is too owning, DOGS ova has nice style. Parents are now coming back home with my dinner consisting of Macs (the cancer food) including seaweed shaker fries yay. There is hardly any stress from school now that tok ee wl ioc is over. Tmr I'll be going out to get new monitor (cause old one has alternating bands of light and darker areas flowing down the screen) and new hdd (4th in the series of 320, 500, 640 and now 1tb). Yay life is good.