Raining Chaos

Category: Random

  • Galaxus Nexy

    Hooray for the Galaxy Nexus!

    Finally got released today, so I decided to visit the (apparently) single Telstra store to go check the price of one. I was thinking about buying it online as I was worried the outright price would have been over $900, but I got a mostly pleasant surprise when I found out it was actually much cheaper than that.

    However, Telstra was quite fail, claiming they were incredibly busy that day –  when there seemed to be only one person “qualified”  to sell contracts to people. Everyone else was just a sales rep who couldn’t actually tell me how long the warranty on my phone is. I’ll quite safely assume it’s one year. There was another person there who was after the Galaxy Nexus, and had apparently been waiting for half an hour to get his hands on one. Eventually he was ushered off to a dark corner to sign his life away, but luckily the sales people realised all I wanted to do was buy it outright, not sign a contract, so they said I could line up and talk to a lady who could do the “simple”  things.

    (more…)

  • Logi + techs

    I did some mostly-impulse shopping and I blame my brother for some of it  🙂

    I managed to take some pictures of my Ultrabook,  though it comes with so many names and it doesn’t help that I always try and call it a netbook,  so it actually comes out of my mouth as net-note-laptop-ultra-zenbook or a variant of that.

    It’s so shiny and thin!!!! The first thing I did when I walked into JB Hi-fi (because I am old fashioned and need to hold it and take it home) was head straight to it and feel the temperature. I must have looked like a nerd! Or not. On the adapter it had felt pretty hot,  so I was a little worried about whether it’d cook and burn everything. After fiddling with it for a few days now,  the only time it got me worried was playing Skyrim on low quality for about 10 minutes. Other than that,  I love the SSD and sleekness. Do I believe in love at first sight? Only for random luxury items!

    There was also a Logitech sale that my brother pointed out to me. I had been considering buying a spare mouse for a while,  but never bothered. But since I was on a spending spree,  I figured a good mouse for $19 was too good to pass up. Just in case my current mouse dies. You never know! While I was at it,  I was also in the market for new earphones with a mic. Mic compulsory. So there were some Ultimate Ears 400vi,  so I bought them. I originally had my eye on some Audio Technica CKS55i cause THEY ARE RED,  but these came up and my brother says the UEs are really good. So I ended up with that too,  and they were shipped super fast!

    Now these new earphones are funny because they don’t yet fit my ears. I hope I got the bud size right,  since I tend to fail at a lot of these things. They are a lot warmer and bass-ier than my old cheapo $20 ATs,  so I’m sure I’ll grow to love these too. They also isolate noise moreso than my old ones,  so currently I’m half deaf and yelling at everyone. Probably means I can’t walk around with these in my ears either;  my psychicness is only so good at warning me of oncoming invisible trucks and the like. Ugh.

    PIKTUR

  • Oyster flavours and Zenbooks

    So for the last few days I’ve been getting the flavour of oyster in my mouth. These haven’t been cravings – just that my mouth suddenly tastes like the flavour of oyster, which isn’t really pleasant. It’s too fishy and no nice sauce taste, and most of the time there’s that hint of oyster guts. I’m not crazy at all. However,  I should eat some oysters at some point to get rid of this feeling.

    Also,  after much yes no yes no, I decided to go get myself a fancy shiny Asus Zenbook,  the UX21 (the better one). Pictures to come! Can’t do it right now as it’s so gloomy that it’s just not right for a photoshoot. Though I can’t figure out whether or not I can photoshoot after a day or few of taking it around and smashing it everywhere.

    So it’s just a wall of text today!  😀

  • Swallow + Skyrim bday goodness

    Swallow is an amazing little cafe. It has awesome kicking coffee, possibly as good or better than some of the cafes in the city! So strong and tasty, with good food too.

    And then my super crazy lovely boyfriend gave me Skyrim without warning, so now I have to play it too 🙂

    Also today in the city while I was trying to buy juice, some old man asked me if I had $4. I said no, so then he asked me if I had $3. I said no again, and went to buy my drink. Then, from the other side, some old lady approached and from what I heard, it sounded like she was asking the old man if he had $3. It was such a LOL moment! And also why I hate the city sometimes. The look when you refuse to give people money obviously shows they don’t need it in the first place.

    FIREBALL

  • WTB phone that defends marines in SC

    http://www.google.com/nexus/

    I will use the voice to text to plan out my gaming! Totally! Yeah!

    In all srsness I would like this phone with its ice cream sand witchy goodness.

    http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/gamecom-777

    I also got a new headset and I think it’s this one, but I’m a bad so I wouldn’t know. It’s very comfortable and apparently my voice sounds more like me now 🙂

    Last of all…

    Happy Lab opened in Westfield Sydney! I totally went crazy since it’s all science-y sugary goodness. Bought random ones where I liked the flask shapes and flavours. Wheeee!

     

  • I am so lucky….

    That lamb cutlets are tender 😀 I was freaking out, worried that I had overcooked them. It also didn’t help that I had three cutlets, and all were different thicknesses.  But they are suuuuper delicious and nice.

    I still can’t get over the fact that handmade butter tastes weird.

    I had some pepper and red wine beef sausages yesterday which were awesome. I was worried about undercooking them, but I think they ended up being just right.

    I’ve been getting up earlier than usual to feed the cat, open windows/blinds and cook some breakfast. I had bacon and egg this morning. ON A WEEKDAY. That was amazing. This whole looking after myself thing is difficult in terms of what to eat every night, but I also realised just how expensive I am haha – lamb cutlets, gourmet sausages, colourful tomatoes, handmade butter,  nice leafy greens, etc. It would be… difficult staying healthy on a budget. It’s interesting that when having to feed myself, I really focus on what nutrients I am getting. Vegetables actually taste nice, but I’m getting sick of making the same salad three days in a row. At least my meat is varied. Carbs are also difficult as I’ve been stuck with a giant loaf of olive bread that I can’t finish by myself.

    I’m thinking noodles tomorrow. Cold soba (or lukewarm) with soy sauce mushroom dip. Maybe.

    The cat is funny. I give it food, it nibbles at it, then meows at me. Well, it’s always meowing at me. Always wanting nicer food or something. Apparently he’s very fussy. Next time I’ll just toss him a leaf.

     

  • Housekeeping a cat

    I volunteered to look after a friend’s place while she goes overseas for a couple of weeks. Well the place will be OK. It’s mainly the cat that I’ll have to look after. Considering I’ve never looked after anything other than goldfish, I’m not sure how all this will turn out.

    The best thing is that without any kind of budget restriction, I am feasting on all kinds of food. I get handmade butter (which actually tastes kind of off,  but considering I got shown a video of how butter is made, it IS made of off milk, so whatever XD) which is quite saltier than standard butter, and random artisan bread. I wanted some plain Sonoma sourdough, but they had run out, so I got some Brasserie olive sourdough instead.

    I managed to somehow already spend about $100 on food… ugh. Some tomato mix, some Charlie’s juices, soy milk, yoghurt, tinned oysters in bbq sauce… and I still haven’t bought ice cream and cheese yet!

    Turns out trying to control a cat is hard. I give it cat food, and when I started eating, it wanted my food! Its claws hurt even when it’s not even trying to touch me 🙁 lol

    It’s going to be a fun two and a bit weeks. Wheeeee!

  • Mac KC

    Today while getting breakfast from one of many cafes I visit, I noticed that someone had ordered a coffee… with a mini Keep Cup!

    It was a tiny, cute, black little thing, and now I have decided I want one, and will call it my Mac KC, short for Macchiato Keep Cup. I already have Toby KC, I donated Vella Nero KC to my mum, a Pattison KC, and iiKC. At once I considered starting an entire collection including Campos KC etc,  however I figured it’d be too expensive and rather useless. But a MINI one… now that’d be something I’d just have to get.

    And if I ordered this over the internets,  it’d look like this:

    But first, maybe, I will hunt for one. If I ever get around to running to the end of eternity. Yes………

  • Hilarious Bombay Bollywood Bum Burner

    So today went out with work friends to dinner, since I pretty much never went to any outing except the half yearly ones. I had chosen an Indian restaurant that I’d see while on the train, which sold both savoury and sweet things. There was a lot of samosa, butter chicken and spicies! I also tried a spiced lemon drink which tasted like preserved prunes.

    I had only half-planned the whole thing since I wasn’t sure of numbers, people don’t read their emails, etc. Very impromptu but we ended up with quite a few people and everyone enjoyed it  🙂

    The highlight of the dinner was certainly the bum burner that makes you smile!

    http://www.jaipursweets.com.au/

  • iPhone4S(uckers)

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/meet-the-new-iphone-4s/

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/iphone-4s-vs-iphone-4-the-tale-of-the-tape/

    lol?

    I am hungry for ice cream sandwich >.<

    I also think I am becoming a coffee addict. Not good for my money!