A semi-eventful week
Last Tuesday (Oct. 16) I went to Caloocan City hall to get myself a Cedula, which I needed for the supposed meeting on Thursday. Also, I passed by the mall to watch a streaming video of the new series of Heroes season 2, which unfortunately I didn’t finished because their stream was too slow. Anyway, I’ll just wait for my cousin to finish downloading the latests episodes then I’ll just watch it at the comfort of my room.
Last Thursday (Oct. 18) I went to Makati with my aunt, half-sister and her son, and my cousin and her boyfriend. Anyway, we just went there to finish signing ‘important documents’ from our lawyer. Another highlight of the trip was my half-sister asked me to help her son build a custom PC. Ok so we are aiming for a high-end PC because my nephew’s course in college is 3D animation, that means high graphics and high memory, powered with high capacity and fast processing power. The specs?
Motherboard: MSI K9N NEO-F NFORCE 550/SOCKET AM2/1000FSB/DDR2
Processor: Athlon 64 X2 4400 Dual core processor (Box) socket AM2
RAM: Transcend 1GB DDR2 PC667 memory (x2, totaling 2 GB of RAM)
Graphics Card: Powercolor ATI HD2600XT DDR3 PCIE 512MB TV 128BUT DVI
Hard Drive: Hitachi 160GB SATA
Optical Drive: Sony DRU-835A 18X/8X DL 8.5GB Light scribe Dual layer DVD-/+
Although I always recommend ASUS (motherboard) using nVIDIA chipset (graphics card) running on an Intel core duo (processor), he specifically stated, he wants AMD Athlon (processor) with ATI chipset (graphics card) so we settled on a MSI motherboard. Anyway, we tested his rig using my favorite Need For Speed Carbon game with all setting and details set to high or maximum, and well… the result? no lag whatsoever. After getting a hands-on to his gaming rig, I’m more encouraged to upgrade my relatively slow PC to match his.
Yesterday, Friday (Oct. 19) my nephew wanted to buy a new cellphone so he asked me to accompany him at the local mall. He’s going back to the province (Naga city) later that evening. Sony Ericsson K750i was his choice, features? A media player to play videos, music, and view photos. A built-in speaker with MegaBass™ to broadcast what music you are listening to. Supports Bluetooth, USB cable, and video streaming. GPRS is also supported, with expandable micro memory stick. It has a flash when shooting the camera, and uses the QuickShare technology.
Talk about expensive shopping, 29,000 for the PC unit plus 7,650 for the brand new cellphone, plus other ’stuff’ that they need. My half-sister and her son only stayed here for just two days, and went back to Naga City the next day.
Today, Saturday (Oct. 20) is my birthday, but I’m planning to have the celebration by Saturday (Oct. 27) next week so that most of my friends can come. I just hope all of the ones I specifically invited would show up. Hehehe. Anyway, my plans for today is to just go out with my girlfriend, after her work later this evening. We didn’t go out last Wednesday (Oct. 17) to celebrate our monthsarry, so we have to go out today.
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