Up-to-date, once again.

april 7, 2010

okay, i probably lied when i told you that the biggest expenditure for gadgets i’ll be having this year is kafka, the olympus pen. i was 5 years behind the computing technology, so i recently acquired a monster toshiba laptop, named tiny, which at 18.4″ screen, is not really tiny at all. my old toshiba served a good 4,6 years with me and it never failed save for changing the battery pack once, usb becoming loose, and the lcd plastic frame cracking. when the crack finally gave up and tear off a few weeks ago, i decided to replace it. this is the beast machine from toshiba, qosmio x505. it’s not the top of the model, but i-core 5, 4gb of ram, and a full-gig of nvidia gts 360m video memory is a huge leap for me, technology and money-wise. i would like to think it as a prize for myself for placing 7th during the run (boo!!) and crossing the 50-m olympic size pool in freestyle (yey!!!) way ahead of my original deadline of june 2010. i’ve yet to check my lap time, but i guess it is around 50 seconds, extremely close to michael phelps 22 seconds for the same distance!!

when i started proper swimming (3 months ago), i genuinely told myself i would be happy to just learn the proper freestyle stroke and finish a 50-m lap continuously. but then, things change whenever you get closer to them. that’s a fact. now, i want to learn how to dive properly, head first, and not the expert belly flap i always do, flipper-dolphin kick, and tumbling/somersault when returning immediately AFTER crossing the 50m length. wow, i know that is something hard to achieve. whenever i practice in the community pool, i see kids learning to swim from a very young age, and i know that is more desireable and when they grow up at the same age as myself, they would most certainly swim better than how i swim now. but if you always reason out things, then everything will be out of the way and you will do nothing.

alright, before i become too serious here, i’ve never felt waiting for office-closing time of 6pm as much as now! imagine, i slept last night, well technically, today, at 3am, and that gives me around 4,5 hours of sleep. that’s may not be alarming to you, but i have to tell you that i need at least 8 hours of sleeping time to function properly. i’m excited to go home and tweak tiny, customizing to my preference (i am vista and win 7 idiot) and then some games, probably starting with resident evil 5 because it’s the installer that i have at the moment. assassin’s creed 2 crack is not working, and battle for middleearth, and crysis is on it’s way.

but before reuniting with tiny, i will hit the pool first because i don’t want any gadget to interfere with my swimming career (lol). someday, michael phelps will be proud of me (another lol).