This Friday, 25 January is the Apple one-day shopping event.

So I saw an email with this title in my mail: <ADV> This Friday, 25 January is the Apple one-day shopping event.

Reaction no.1: What shopping event? o.o

Reaction no. 2: 25th Jan? Ooo that's Sho's bday!

Reaction no. 3: House later… when i finally opened that mail…. *looks at system clock* 

Wednesday...

o.o

*looks again, at the date this time…*

Uhoh...

WHAT SHO'S BDAY IS IN TWO DAYS???? HOW AM I GOING TO FINISH THAT FIC I WAS GONNA WRITE FOR HIS BDAY?!?!?!?!

and i was just lamenting about how today's whole day of shopping has left me with inadequate time to watch all my arashi shows, write fics, AND study for the next test. Well my next test is in two week's time, on the 4th of feb, but i've got 4 full days of foundation courses to attend from Tuesday to Friday, WITH the mock test on Friday evening after the training… so… haiz. I doubt i'll have much energy after the trainings to study so i'll try and force myself to finish studying before Tuesday. 327 pages this time… no good no good… :X

Kim Dotcom is back… with Mega

So i was reading techland when i came across this article… Forget MegaUpload… he's come with something even better this time… Mega.

Of course I'm pretty darn excited about this new Mega service. Especially after how my MF account just got suspended a while back… with absolutely no warnings whatsoever… and the thing is that, i didn’t even have much stuff in my MF account! I only had a few files, each with less than 10 DLs the last time i checked! Not sure if it was cos i tried to upload too many things that day or what but… yeah… i totally understand how painful it must have been for those who shared loads of stuff and then have their MF account just… *poof*. I didn’t have much and those were just mirrors so it really didn’t affect much but… 

So I'm definitely worried about this mega site… with all the fanfare that it opened with. From what i guess… that guy doesn’t give a shit about what we upload, and he doesn’t care about piracy for all that matters… but of course to comply with legal issues the files will be taken down if people complain about it… but the way he wants to structure it… 

Mega, like Megaupload, allows users to store and share large files. It offers 50 gigabytes of free storage, much more than similar sites such as Dropbox and Google Drive, and features a drag-and-drop upload tool.

The key difference is an encryption and decryption feature for data transfers that Dotcom says will protect him from the legal drama that has entangled Megaupload and threatened to put him behind bars.

The decryption keys for uploaded files are held by the users, not Mega, which means the company can’t see what’s in the files being shared. Dotcom argues that Mega — which bills itself as “the privacy company” — therefore can’t be held liable for content it cannot see.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2013/01/20/indicted-megaupload-founder-launches-new-site/#ixzz2IjKPKUYq

That's good news… if the company can't even see what's being shared. Heck more like they don't want to see/know. Which is certainly good for us.

What I'm worried about… is whether the feds will force shutdown mega like it did with MU… i wonder how Dotcom's argument will last… either i've signed up for an account already. 50GB sure is nice. Hope the upload/download speed will be as fast (or even faster) as MF. Well i think its pretty slow now though. 14 hours and half a million sign ups kinda taxed their system.  This guy is intending to make a music service too… I'll be really interested to see what he does XD

Anyways… 50 GB sure is nice. Shall see how things turn out.

Wild at heart!

Yes that song is stuck in my head now!

Finally finished watching the lucky 7 sp that i started on Monday… stopped watching cos i was approaching 4am already with like an hour more of the drama to go… plus it was at the part with the 'hot blooded but stupid J' which i can't stand… (hence the reason why i didn’t finish watching bambino). Well that part was over pretty soon after i 'restarted' watching today though, and overall i loved the SP. Loads of action, nice and complete story, loads of fan service… J putting on clothes? J and Eita half naked??!?!?! J acting as a girly gay? OMG that was just hilarious! And J is so freaking buff now! I was like OMG the muscles! 

Now i only have last week's last hope, VSA, HnA, and AnShi left to watch. Oh wait… there's yesterday's last hope, and tmr's VSA and HnA too haha. Oh wells. Spent the whole day clothes shopping yesterday. Gosh it was such a torture. Yes i actually hate shopping for clothes… but since i needed to get more working clothes… i actually managed to get 4 blouse/shirt/whatever…? tops? and a pants. I bet i broke the record for 'Most pieces of clothing bought in a day'. Seriously! I've never bought so many clothes at once before… i feel so proud of myself now haha. I guess its better not to drag things out, rather buy it all in one day than having to shop again. And as much as i do have some leeway… I'm feeling that break slip away from me way too fast. But yes, at least i don't have to wear like the same top within the week now.

Did some cleaning up today… vacuumed the room, changed my bed sheets, wiped/washed the fan, cleaned the window stills and my printer table. That took me really long… :X now I'm worried about how little time i have… Tuesday to Friday next week are full time foundation training courses. 9-6pm, then my mock test for the heath insurance module is next Friday after the training. So i've got to study finish it somehow before Friday, 15 chapters and 32x pages… sighs. Yet another round of battle coming up!

The newspapers are piling up and I'm determined to finish reading all my backlog before next Tuesday… i wonder how much i can clear of it :X 

 

Oh a separate note… My phone's screen protector spoilt. Like the thing itself spoilt this time… not the usual 'i scratched it badly' kind of spoilt. 

First a bubble appeared and i was like ?!?!?! how come a bubble appeared from the middle of the protector out of nowhere? THen by the time i reached home, even more bubbles appeared. On impulse, i peeled off the screen protector only the find that the glue had, idk? melted? shrink? it was all curled up, creating air spaces in the void beside where there was no more glue - no wonder all the bubbles appeared! So i tore the whole thing off only to realised half of the glue had came out already. Now i've got a really shiny iPhone screen… (always been using matt surface protectors). Haiz. Passed by a handphone shop the other day and i was still thinking that i should get a new screen protector… but didn’t see any for iPhone 3g one on sale. Should i even bother buying a screen protector? Or shd i just change a new phone? o.o My phone is in a really bad condition now. Home button doesn’t respond half the time, worst still, now even the on/off button isn't responsive. On Monday I was listening to songs as usual… and i must have checked the time on my phone or something then tried to turn off the screen. Obviously it didn’t register cos the next thing i knew my song was BLASTING and it totally shocked me. I though some sort of emergency siren came off, then i realise wait it’s still the same arashi song and hurriedly tried to lower down the volume, but my finger was still at the volume control part of the screen cos the volume shot back up again. Seriously gave me a huge scare! 

And my phone battery life! Nowadays I'm reaching home with just like… 8% battery life to spare or something… in the past it barely goes below 20%. AND that’s with my playing games on the train. Nowadays i don't even dare to play games for fear of my phone battery going flat before the day ends. Maybe i'll have to turn off 3G… haiz.