Now there are a few sites that offer this service. I found another one, called Bongo international. They ship all of your items at once with a highly reduced shipping cost. There’s one I think Singapore based company that does the same but they still have high shipping charges. Now the thing about Bongo is that you can have Pay Per Use or subscription based account. PPU is alright for people like me who buys stuff internationally like DVD (or at least used to) once in a while. It says it has discounted shipping but I have no idea how much discount it would be.. but for those who do a lot of US shopping online they have a subscription based account with highly discounted shipping charges. It all sounds tempting.

Too bad I’m not rich and not working. There’s a lot of stuff I want to buy from the US that’s not available here in Malaysia but sadly most don’t ship to Malaysia. Maybe in the future it’ll be useful to me, I’ll keep this site in mind.

It was held at e@Curve (formerly cineleisure) and I arrived at 7 pm and had to wait for roughly 30-40 minutes there until everyone was there. When I arrived there was already a lot of people waiting and those who got the table at the front there will get to mingle with Dave and take pictures. I wanted to do that but he was so busy. After that we were all asked to go into the cinema, where he would give the talk. Oh and I also met this lady who was very talkative, so I wasn’t really alone and looking all dumb. Hehe.

I was surprised that Ally Iskandar was hosting the event. He’s the famous TV3 (local station) host. He’s a funny guy. After a few talks, then Dave gave a really interesting (and he’s hilarious) talk about how to lose weight and get motivated to do so. Then another surprise guest appeared — SYANIE! Okay, she’s this famous Malaysian comedian artist who is morbidly obese. Last year she surprised everyone when she decided to do the gastric bypass surgery. And to date, she has surprisingly lost 60KG!  Wow. When she appeared, she looked a lot thinner than healthier than she was before. She’s also joining this programme. Of course, her being an artist, and obviously now ambassador for this programme, she’s getting in for free I assume. Even if she’s not, she could so afford it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t. It cost RM3600+ for this 13 weeks structured programme to lose weight.. well Rm1000 less if you register that night. If I was morbidly obese and didn’t get through the audition for Biggest Loser Asia, then I might consider this but I’m not morbidly obese.. I’m not even obese.. I’m still in the normal range, just out of shape lol.

Though, having a trainer, in this 13 weeks programme along with other fat people with the same motivation is good. I just need upper body strength to tone my arms and chest… I’d need something like this dip station… I need to stop being lazy and go to the gym once my face is healed.

Before my phone’s battery died completely I managed to snap this picture of the 3 of them (Mr Shawn (sp?), Syanie and Dave) having a chat together. I didn’t register for the programme but I did get a (useless) goodie bag by Fitness First. I got a deodorant for MALE. Geez. Deodorant would be useful but it’s for male >.> Either the girl mistakenly gave me the male bag or they only have male deodorant to give away. Oh well. At least I had a delicious mini bruschetta-like snack and 2 bottles of free mineral water lol.

And I got this too : -

A picture with Dave! I look fat. The girl didn’t know how to use my phone camera to take a picture.. this is the 3rd picture and the only clear picture.

Oh and the next day was my birthday! haha. Didn’t have a good birthday but I did get some wishes in facebook. Ok, now.. next blog!

Omg I installed an OS dammit, something I never thought I could do. I was scared shitless that I would screw up everything and thus render my PC unusable but thank God everything worked out fine So I decided to install Windows 7 Ultimate because once I saw the GUI in youtube video, and how people keep talking about how good and how fast it is, and much better than Vista that was an epic fail, I decided I’m going to install it. I DESPISE Windows XP. I guess I’ve been using the same ‘windows’ typical look since Windows 95, and that I’m used to Vista and all the glassy aero look.

I can say I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Windows 7 It’s much faster and less buggier than Windows Vista, so far. Love the simple clean look, the taskbar where they’re only (grouped) icons, the changing desktop themes.. everything. If you’ve been wondering whether to update to Windows 7 from XP or Vista, I’d say DO IT. Definitely. I did a clean install cuz I don’t want any trace of Windows XP in my HDD. At first I thought I wanted a dual boot, but nah.. Not going back to XP. Plus I have way too many junks, I want to get rid of them and start fresh. I did backup my stuff. Now, thing is.. there are some things that I forgot to backup like my Photoshop & After Effects plugins/brushes, my yahoo chat.. and I was like FUCK. But turns out Windows 7 moved all my old stuff in a new folder, so I didn’t lose anything.. ain’t that great? So happy about that.

Now I have to reinstall all my stuff again.. including some of my games @_@ Which is gonna be a pain in the ass, cuz they take really long to install. And another thing, I partitioned my own drive Ahh technology.. before when you need to partition your drive, you have to go to DOS and do it manually, etc and it was very complicated.. now it’s all so easy. I’m actually proud of myself for not screwing up anything this time.

Speaking of screwing up, I screwed up my PR exam yesterday. OMG it was SO HARD. I couldn’t even think properly. Everything that I read, I can’t remember any! So I just wrote whatever shit I can think off, hopefully that, and the multiple choice questions plus assignments would be enough for me to pass.. I can’t hope for an A now, I’m very sad. I would not get over this for a long time.

I tested Second Life in Windows 7… ahh, I forgot how beautiful and tranquil some places in Second life can be… I haven’t logged on for like a year? Almost? It used to be my getaway place when I need to relax, or just temporary forget my real life problems… I used to love to go to a forest or a park or the beach in there, listen to the soft music, nature sounds.. crackling of camp fire, and just stare at the screen for a while. Believe it or not, it helped me to relax and forget my problems. If not, club hopping and just listen to the good music. And if you meet some good people, you can have a good conversation with them. Plus, it’s good for photography.. I love taking snapshots of beautiful places in SL. In December, I’m gonna make my return in SL. If i can’t get real life vacation after graduation showcase is over, I’m vacationing in SL.

I have more to blog but I’ll do it later today. I’m gonna reinstall some stuff now before I have to go to college. God now my final project is giving me a headache. And I can’t find my Microsoft Office 2007 installation file, so I can’t do my pre production stuff for my final project. This is stressing me out. I’m getting stress zits.. and I can’t stand this bad breakouts. I’ve tried a lot of different acne treatments but at last, I go back to wanting the stupid accutane which screws up the menstrual cycle, my mood.. but hey, I’d have a clean, non-oily, zit-less face!

Yesterday was interesting. I had class in the morning, then a shoot after that with Alison and her bf.. which went okay except that all of us got bitten like mad by mosquitoes. I felt bad they had to be tortured like that so I treated them McD. Then came back to college for meeting. The graduation meeting is starting to feel like the old student leader meeting, where there’d have unexpected meeting one day and only inform everyone the night before which would ruin whatever plan you have on that day. Urgh. But…! I got my result! YAY!

Research Methodology –  A
Short Film Workshop –  A-
Video Editing –  A
Video Production 2 –  C+
Media Studies –  A

GPA: 3.61

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OMG. I’m so fricken happy that my GPA is still above 3.5. The stupid Video Production 2 ruins it, but then again I’m quite surprised it was C+ considering everything was extremely fucked for that subject, all the problems with documentary and an embarrassing final presentation so C+ is acceptable. I got scared that I might get low because one guy has to resit for that subject and his final project was good. I thought I might get D or something. So far, no D ever in my subjects.

I’m also surprised at the rest. Ok, Research… It was a quite a tough subject. Then one of the guest assessor said my report was incomplete (and said that to everyone too) and would not give good marks for it.. then video editing.. well, it was an easy subject.. except the final presentation day where my group was late to present, my external HDD died so we couldn’t present normally like the rest of the groups. I thought the fuckups would affect the grade. Media Studies – wow.. it was a tough subject. The last presentation was nerve wrecking. The assignments were hard.

But overall I’m satisfied with my result. So I’m happy.

After the meeting I went to Low Yatt to survey DSi prices. If I just want the console, the cheapest I found was RM670 (USD$193) and the highest was around RM750 (USD$216) I think. If I want together with package.. where this is hard since each store is different, the cheapest is RM750, and the highest was like RM850 or almost RM900 (USD300). Still fricken expensive. BUT, this one store let me test it, and I played some games on it… omg, now I so badly want it.

You see, I thought DSi had just minor upgrade. But once you hold it, you can totally feel the difference. The surface is of course no longer smooth. The matte black has rough surface, and the white feel a bit smoother. I’m starting to think it’s good, because the DS lite tends to slide off my hands quite a number of times before. It’s thinner and a bit bigger, buttons feel different now, not protruding like DS Lite. And the screen.. argh, it felt so different. I thought o.25 inc bigger is not much of a deal but you can really feel the difference. Contra looked so good on it. Camera was eh… so-so. It’s the quality of a webcam but still quite ok. Ugly colors though. I still love metallic rose on DS Lite, but I could still live with a black DSi. White looks good too but it will get dirty. Blue – yuck. Pink hurts my eyes.

They offer either R4i, R4i Gold or R4i Pocket. I want Acekard 2i but I have to add Rm20 – Rm40 extra, wtf. If I buy online it’s only like Rm40-ish after converting currency. I think I’m gonna buy it anyway and then buy Acekard 2i online. Hopefully I can get it next week.  I still need to survey Sungei Wang and Imbi Plaza first. Oh! PS2 slim is cheap nowadays.. I think I’m gonna get it after this semester is done. It’s around RM470 (USD$135) now. When I bought it, it was RM1500 (USD$432) for a modified bulky PS2. So I’m gonna wait a bit until I can go back to Ipoh and sell the old bulky non-working PS2. I miss playing PS2 games.. at least I can play it for a while until I can get money for Nintendo Wii.. the fricken awesome black Wii! Oh half modified PSP 3000 is cheaper than Dsi, lol. It’s like RM 600-ish.

After that I had an interesting situation with scammers. FUCKING SCAMMERS. I’ll write about it later in a new post. Oh yeah, in need of a tuxedo vest? Formaltux.com is having discounts now, so if you need a tux for occasions, now it’s the best time.

However, NDSi is fucking expensive here. If I want the console + R4i + screen protector + 2GB memory card with games = Rm8xx! Almost a fricken RM900! Crazy. Well it’s almost the same if I imported from Play-Asia without all other stuff.. but oh man that’s expensive. I have someone from Low Yatt forum to suggest me the lowest price possible.. he listed as DSi RM 6xx.. which is quite ok, however it’s just the console. If that’s the case, I can get flashcart online.. just around USD$13 which is way cheaper instead of buying it here but I’m risking myself. If the product is spoiled, then I’m screwed.

I still don’t know what to get. If I get the same NDSL as my old one, I can still play my Guitar Hero… no worries about new firmware update that will brick the flashcart due to their anti piracy protection… and it’s cheaper now so I can save money. And there’s no other color that I love other than metallic rose.

However, with DSi, I have extra camera feature.. which is not a big thing but it’s a nice add on where you can upload pic directly to facebook.. download dsiware… FLIPBOOK.. omg that’s like the coolest DSi application.. no rebooting when changing cartridge, but it’s more expensive.. plain color, but it’s okay, I can just pimp it up with stickers.  No more guitar hero. And new firmware will keep bricking flashcart.. argh.

I saw Promotional flash drive, but not for portable external HDD… I’m finding it extremely difficult to carry my huge non portable external HDD back Ipoh, and can’t take it anywhere. I want 500Gb :\ PC fair is like couple of months away x.x Well it’s okay, that gives me time to save money.

EDIT: After watching a couple of DSi unboxing videos on youtube and looking at the reviews, I have made up my mind, I’m getting a DSi. I don’t care, I want a DSi.