Am I on 56kbps again?????

The recent earthquake around taiwan is a real tragedy. Not just for the people living there, but for me too!!! This is the first time an earthquake actually affected me so badly. haha.

The earthquake apparently broke quite a few underwater cables that connects most of south east asia to the US i think, so now our internet speeds are really bad. Because Singnet is re-routing our internet through other cables. So it feels like I’m using 56k again. (Come to think of it, I’ve never used 56k, only 28.8, and then 256kbps, 512kbps, then to my current 3.5mb, heh). Webpages are taking forever to load now, it’s a pain even to blog now.. And files that usually downloaded at speeds of roughly 200kbps now download at 0.1kbps. And according to the news, it’s gonna take at least 3 weeks to fix up everything. Argh, the next 3 weeks are gonna be hell for me, not to mention that it means I’ll have a crappy net connection when macworld is going on, seems like I can’t watch the video of the keynote until a week or 2 after the actual keynote is over I just hope that my net connection is at least fast enough to let me surf around other sites to check out what’s new next year…. haha..

-wong.

damn long nvr blog.

hell lot of stuff has happened since the last time I blogged. Too lazy to do so. But now, since I got nth else to do, might as well blog.

Might as well start of with VJC invitationals.  Champions!!!! went back a week after prelims for semis and finals. We were up against ACS I in the semis. Motion was something like “TH supports cross border adoptions” or something along those lines. Beat them quite easily, but that’s only cuz they were mainly the second team. And turned out that scgs won RI!!! haha, so we were up against them  After that we had a 3 hour break before the finals. And i couldn’t even eat lunch, cuz didn’t have any any appetite, was too damn nervous.. heh.. Anywayz, went over our case and rebuttals for practically the whole 3 hours, with mark and robin, haha, deprived them of their lunch too. After that, it was finally time for us to go to another special room for the finals. Against SCGS. After the whole match was over, i was even more nervous than before, cuz this was really our chance to win. In the end, we finally won by a 3-2 split. our first trophy in 35 months.. haha. We ended up celebrating by going to lan for a few hours, then went to fish and co. to eat. I’ll post pics when i get them.. (though that will only be after the internet gets back to normal speeds…)

Anywayz, trained a few more times after the competition, and our next training is gonna be next year…

In other news… I bought a ps2.. haha, ya u read that right, a PS2. I don’t think that I’m willing to spend 700 bucks for an xbox360, not to mention the 1000 bucks needed for a PS3, and the Wii is only arriving in Singapore next year, and I can’t wait that long, so I guess a PS2 will do. There are a few perks to getting a previous gen console though.
1. It’s a lot more cheaper, my PS2 only cost 288 dollars, with a memory card (which is worth 30 bucks by itself) and an extra controller.
2. There are A LOT more games out there, not to mention quite a few that I’ve been dying to try (eg. the Final Fantasy series, etc.)
3. And did i mention it’s A LOT more cheaper???

I’m already almost halfway through NFS: Carbon. Plan on finishing the game before the holis are over. And I’m not playing FF12 for the time being, because apparently it takes over a 100 hours to complete the game, and I don’t wanna to give up the game halfway through due to the lack of time. So I guess I’ll play it after my O’s next year. Haha, it’s a long way away, but that’s the only way I can really enjoy the game…..
And I’m sure there are many other things that I wanna blog about, but I just can’t remember all of them right now.. Maybe I’ll edit this post as time passes and I remember them :P…

-Kang an (spvn)