just got back from Nathaniel's place, the group went there to celebrate Nat's bro's (Joshua) birthday and i had to sleep over last night cause it was a little too late for me to drive home (parent's ruling). It was quite a small birthday party for his little bro, but the food was great and the movie (Scott Pilgrim vs the world) was good awesome :D
been about a week since my exams ended and i've been doing quite a bit actually, although not really what i had in mind. Dad suggested that i went to work for/with him, at the very least get some exposure to office life and since i had nothing really better to do (some i couldn't), i gave in. Good thing is i finally get to have my own laptop (yay) a bit late for a geek like me but yeah...
so we took the first few days after my exams to look for a new laptop, it was really just 3 hours spent in Low Yat Plaza but i did my research beforehand so i knew what i was looking for, just had to compare a few brands and their prices when we got there. We got a deal at a Hewlett Packard distributor with a brand new Pavilion model, the DM4-1112TX which cost me 3 grand and according to the salesman, was a brand new model of the DM4 which had not been announced to the public yet (i think he meant Malaysia only). It was a bit more expensive (about RM100) from what i selected from their catalog, the DM4-1101TX (since 1112TX was the upgraded version of it anyway) but it gave me some extra disk space, 500GB and a more powerful 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5470 graphic processor, lovely :D
maybe a few pictures of it would help, but i'm lazy to actually take photos of it with the fact that i don't own a DSLR camera, so here, took these from Engadget's Galleries :)
the whole new laptop hunt actually took about 2 hours, then we spent another hour looking for accessories and cool stuff before heading home. Absolutely love the DM4's slim and elegant form, it's got some cool "carvings" on its lid that resembles a stream of plasma going across its length and a logo that glows white when the laptop is on...ah and that its surface is made of aluminium..so cool lah xDD
started "work" on Thursday, and "work" meaning i only got lessons from my dad about his industrial design work and introduced myself to the other employees there. His workplace is kinda cool, its not hectic or filled with incoming calls every 5 minutes or so, in fact its quiet and simply relaxing to be in, his clerk even had time to Facebook i think, but of course they all did their jobs well so my dad didn't bother. i know its still a bit early to really tell, only been to his office for two days but we'll see how it goes :)
i hope i don't get stuck working for him for too long, still a bit more i'd like to do, one being visiting friends, even those that live as far as Desa Park City (hint <_<) well i've got a car and i can drive, so heck i'll just give it a go....kalau boleh lah that is...
other things to do : start drawing lah you! say like graphic design and all but cannot draw...pfft ; err...and go learn and PERFECT Trace Bundy's Patanga (maybe other songs too) ; finish a bunch of survival games, uh...i'm a gamer lah what to do :/
now about to go wardrobe hunting!! that is....going to IKEA to look for wardrobes lah.
(bro became territorial recently)
Till then, ja!
- Topher
p/s its about time i change that avatar on the right column too..
