in ur firmware bricking ur pspz
whilst talking shares with my mother today i realised that i lost $852 today.. on paper that is.. or on screen as it were. it was a bad day for australian stocks.. but $852!! fridge.. that sounds like a lot of money to lose in a day. i didnt earn anywhere near that much from going to work today =p also i apparently didnt get IAG shores which i purchased cos of overdemand. so i have a few grand lying around, any one have any hot stock tips?

in other news: i downgraded my psp to fw 1.50. which means i can like play "homebrew" games. by homebrew i mean "backups" of games ive bought. but on the net they like to call it homebrew to justify the legality of breaking copy protection on the psp. theyre all like "this is technically not illegal cos i could possibly use it to write my own games. if a few rotten apples choose to share 'backups' thats not my fault".

downgrading is so scary.. because forums are littered with posts like "zOMG! i bricked my PSP!!! dont do this!!". "bricked" being net lingo for turning your psp into a brick, i.e. useless. each step of the downgrade has some scary result like "your screen will go red and nothing will happen" or "your psp should freeze now" or "it should reboot itself now". all which are also symptoms of a "bricked" psp.

Labels: psp, stocks

hungry and foolish
gah! its been more than a week since last post.. and i didnt even realise. wtf have i been doing for the last week and a bit? i cant really remember.. my memory sucks so much lately.

at some point i was at karaoke.. but that was possibly last week, i think. but i didnt mention it my last post, so im not sure when it happened =p anyhoo.. it started with a trip to the bar on a friday after work, and eventually led to the night markets at chinatown.. and then onwards to karaoke at some creepy place in surry hills where id never been before =p the song selection wasnt too bad though, they had Perfect by Simple Plan.. and some other good songs which i cant remember atm (memory still dead)

on the sunday directly following the last post, i went for a drive to kiama with kallie, which all but finished off my 50 hours (yay). it was a rather warm day and a good day to be at the beach. there was some street market going on which we checked out for a lil while and ended up buying some buttons, mine was like an L plate =p we walked all around town (which took like half an hour) and then settle down on the beach for some fish and chips (mm), by which time it was late afternoon. it was still quite warm though so we decided on a swim.. which turned out to be freezing cold (brr). my toes went numb.. (gah) but it was still refreshing to be out in the surf again =)

i dont heaps remember what happened during the week, i didnt go to frisbee, which probably means i spent time working on my CRM project. gah! this is why i used to post everyday.. cos a week later i cant remmeber what happened!

last thurs i went out shopping at broadway for no particular reason. we'd intended to go see a movie but the times werent appealing to us so we jsut walked around like idiots for a few hours then played time crisis.. then went home =p

friday was Australia Day! and so we ventured to Maroubra Beach for the usual celebrations. it was quite the lazy/relaxing day, it went something like sit, swim, eat, cricket, skate, swim, sit, frisbee, home. i came away with a disappointingly pale tan despite being in the sun all day. i sucked quite royally at cricket, which i am normally ok at .. but that was when i was young =p the skating was spent mostly trying to remmeber how to stand on a board again.. and also avoiding millions of lil kids on Razr scooters. it was however i chance to see some ppl who i never get to see normally. there was actually another picnic right near ours which was full of all these ppl who i sorta knew from uni. by that i mean i knew well enough to talk to.. but not well enough to keep in touch with =p

on saturday i went to lisa's bday thing at her house. it was ok i spose.. other than i didnt know anyone there. i mostly tried to find randoms to discus snowboarding with.. she knows a lot of them i spose hehe. other than that i just joined in the odd game of big 2 (with chinese rules). i did have to escape early to go out to Cruise Bar for cocktails with the peeps who'd dropped into Sydney for australia day. the cocktail i had was pretty weak in taste and alcohol.. luckily id had a few at lisas =p we turned back the clock a bit with a visit to City Extra after.. and needless to say i got home on some sort of nite ride =p

phew.. blogging is so much effort nowadays....

in other news: i bought a PSP.. firmware 2.6 .. but im too scared to crack it. someone help me..

Labels: driving, karaoke

i must be fine because my heart's still beating
so its been a while since i posted. mostly because ive been way busy with this crm thing im working on. its not even that much work, but i can only work on it at night, and they can only test it in the day. so i jsut make a change (which sometimes only takes 5 mins) then i have to wait a whole day for them to tell me that they changed their mind, or theyd like me to move and image 2 pixels to the left. seems like its going on forever..

anyhoo over that last week ive also been doing other things... last week Haleh left the rba which is all very sad (boo). but me and betty spend a lot of the week running around trying to find her a going away/bday gift. we decided on a digicam, to replace her rather awful 35mm film camera, but theres jsut so much variety nowadays its hard to make a choice. in the end we went to like a dozen stores about like 100 cameras, and ended up buying it from the first store we went to =p

.. from what i can tell she quite liked it. it was a pretty big day which included visits from a few ex-rba'ers who came to catch up. unfortunately very little work was done by anyone in our team that day =p although i jsut realised that im now at the bottom of our team again.. after 4 years of slave labour, im actually going backwards!! *insert generic comments about quitting*

due to wii tennis and the australian open, i decided to go play some tennis. which closely follows soccer as the sport i am the most woe at. it was still fun to get out into the sun though. quite randomly i rang kallie to see if she wanted to play tennis, and it jsut so happened that she was already playing tennis =p so i joined them for a bit if a hit. i always have to play with the girls cos the guys are too good for me =p i had this racquet i borrowed off chito years ago, and the grip has sorta disintegrated causing me to suck even more than normal.. and also get blisters.

on monday i went rock climbing with the guys from work at st leonards. my arms are jsut as weak as they always were, but it was my feet that were hurting the most. the shoes are meant to be really tight, but these were so painful i could barely even climb in them. also my knee was hurting when i tried to push up onto a hold (gah!)

re: frisbee this week, i only managed one game.. but that was enough to end my season i think. My knee could love nothing more than a rest for 4 weeks before snowboarding in Canada. frisbee + tennis + rockclimbing quite a problem for a bad knee, which sucks so so much.

today i had to work (boo). we had a change to our firewall/proxy and i had the option of oncall or overtime. i picked overtime because i figured id probly be in the city anyway for something or other. i had nothing to do today, but i needed to be at work about more than 3 hours anyway, so it was probly worthwhile. that roughly translates to a whole day of pay at double time =)

ive done a fair bit of driving this week, including a trip to see the Big Merino in Goulburn. it is much less impressive than i remember (from when i was about 10). its pretty much deserted now, apparently they are dismantling it to move it down the road. no doubt to make it visible from the bypass which has killed its business =p

ive noticed my posts being quite disjointed lately, i thin i have trouble concentrating.. maybe i actually do have ADD =p .. anyhoo this post is too long already.. time to end it..

driving hours left: 6

Labels: driving, injuries

you picked a really bad time
so i just found out that i miss a Bloc Party concert in Vancouver by 2 hours! i now have the option of moving my flight by a day (and reapplying for leave) or instead catching a bus/train to Seattle to see the gig on the previous day.

on a related note you can see their new video clip on youtube, album isnt far away.

in some other bad timing, i leave Sydney 2 days before Daph returns.. then i leave Vancouver 2 days before she arrives there =p that is if she goes of course.

also i get back to Sydney from Vancouver 2 days after Julia's wedding! so i missing out on things left right and centre. gah!

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last nite at frisbee i continued my habit of playing badly in div2 and well in div3. I dont really think the pressure of div2 is getting to me, but it appears to be. i jsut make a bunch of silly mistakes.. and i seem to get tired a lot more easily.

in other news: i desperately need to get my licence ASAP, cos the man is changing the test so its harder to pass. gah! i hate thinking that i was about 4km/h away from having this all sorted out 8 years ago. *sigh* .. and i still have 16 more hours to get before i can sit the test!! seems like its taking forever.

you wouldnt like me when im angry
if you're a rss reader, you may not have noticed that i have a new template. i never was good colors... i think its maybe a bit too purple. and we all know what that means? =p

this week i managed to book flights to canada =) im only going for a touch over 2 weeks, but itll have to do. it helps that im in the gold coast for a few days before i leave hehe. holidays for this year are pretty much wrapped up, phew... and its only the first week of the year.

of recent times my life has consisted of coding java and playing wii.. and thats just at home =p work is mostly watching the aussies clean sweep thru the ashes on our big screen =) i think i may have developed tennis elbow from wii tennis, or maybe i have frisbee elbow from too much of that, i figure theyre quite similar.

Labels: template

What do u do with a B.A. in English?
so its like a new year.. gah! on new years i had xmas.. since my family was all away on holidays on the 25th dec. Jo and Jules only arrived back in Sydney on NYE, they apparently missed the bombings in bangkok by only a few hours. but they hadnt even heard about it till they got home.

xmas/nye was pretty food heavy as always, i was pretty packed out, mostly with turkey and prawns =) other than eating it consisted of WII Play, including end to end hours of my mum vs Jo in that lame fishing game.

over the break i did a lot of house keeping and throwing out junk like my high school assignments =p in my rummaging, i found a lot of cool stuff which i thought id lost.. like AU$250 and SG$80 and HK$20 =) but also some bday cards id accumulated along the way such as the giant 22nd card i got from the anime kids.. so awesome =)

with a new year comes a new start .. well for some.. heres some not so new news with whats going on.

still working at rba
still living at home
still no drivers license
still single
still wearing all stars
still injured
still feeling sick
still tired

in other news: my current wii age is 29 =p

Labels: xmas