Over the past few days, I have the sudden urge of getting my IT stuffs done. My MacBook Air’s copy of virtual Windows 7 isn’t working properly since a few months ago and my Samsung NC10 netbook’s operating system is corrupted like almost a year ago. By my usual standard, I would have fixed them long time ago. Instead, I seem to have put all things on halt. I am not sure why but busy isn’t the word I am looking for. Must be games. My weakness for gaming sometimes really put me behind of schedule. However, it’s undeniable that gaming relaxes my mind and I really need that.

Anyway, I have a few plans going on. First, I have downloaded Windows 8 consumer preview, ready to replace my MacBook Air’s copy of virtual Windows 7. It expires next January and should give me plenty of time to play with it. I will just reinstall Windows 7 when it expires as it’s virtual anyway. Then I shall fix my Samsung NC10 netbook. I plan to install iTunes on it and turn on the sharing function. Hence, it will be like a little server where I can just stream music from it rather than storing music files on my MacBook Air which has got limited space. If I had the space, I might turn it into a little netbook mini hifi as I have a spare set of 2.1 speakers.

I have also longed to replace my current desktop PC with Mac mini. Well, it’s not exactly my desktop, it’s more like Mee’s desktop. It’s not the time yet but sooner or later, I hope to turn the desktop PC into a media server.

To be honest, I am getting quite excited when I speak about it. I will be installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview tonight and from there, I hope that I can continue with what I have planned. Fingers crossed and I should be allocating some time for my gaming session!

Recently, there seems to be a lot of private car selling going on at the moment. Everywhere I go, there will be one or two cars park at the roadside with a piece of paper sticks on its window, stating the price and condition of the car. Just last week, there was a Peugeot 106 on sale for £500 and it was sold within 4 days. For the last couple of days, one of our neighbours park his car just beside our house, a BMW P reg selling at £895. I wonder why. At the main road, there’s a SUV with its kuat bike racks still attached but with no selling price. Only a mobile number for those who are interested. Is it because summer is on its way and they want to sell their old cars to get convertibles? Or they just want to pay off some debts.

Anyway, I am not sure whether or not I will be doing the same thing when it comes to selling my car one day. I might try to get some trade in deal though my car would be too old by the time I want to sell it. It’s still quite good in every way and it would be a waste to scrap it. On the other hand, it would be difficult to put a price on it. Hmm… maybe it’s too early to think about it. House should come first before car unless it fails on me, touchwood!

My new office is quite good. It’s not as good as the old one as I got bigger space in my old office but at least now, we are all sitting together. By that I mean my manager was previously sitting at another place and the idea to have one room to fit us all is just so we can operate like a team. However, there are cons where it’s harder for us to reach out to other team which we have to deal with on a daily basis. And our office is situated on the second floor. Anyhow, it’s been like more than a month already and the only complain that I have is the desk. It’s a bit short in a way that I will be to close to the monitor. They are making some arrangements to put in proper table. It will be better but I believe that the office will be a bit cramp afterwards. We’ll see anyway.

Among the other arrangements, there’s one considerably big for me. From next week onwards, I will be on loan to another department for two days per week until further notice. Hence, I will be doing three days on database matters and two days on web matters. To be honest, I am quite excited with that kind of arrangement as it just makes my job more interesting. My “new” manager is trying hard to find a senior web developer and until then, I think I will continue doing two days a week for him. I can’t believe that they couldn’t find a suitable candidate or maybe their requirement is too high. I did submit my application for the post but I was told that they need someone who is know-it-all. Well, good luck in finding one and guess what, I am doing part of the job where the senior web developer is suppose to do. And I designed and developed 90% the whole system which was suppose to be developed by the senior web developer. Okay, quit moaning you might say, but that’s what blogging is about.

On a happy note, it was Mee’s birthday a couple of days ago. Not the best birthday as she has to work at night on her birthday. No cake too but she did receive some presents and birthday cards. We are just not really in the mood to celebrate anything at the moment. Too many things to think about. I guess it will be the same for my birthday too.

My whole body is aching now. I did a free weight session at the gym on Tuesday, Body Attack on Wednesday and Pilates today. Luckily, it will be a rest day for me tomorrow before Body Balance on Saturday and another free weight session on Sunday. Sometimes, I wonder if my body will ever recover. Whenever my muscles recovered, I would try to lift more weight. And then I would work harder during Body Attack. The only time I really have a rest is when I fall sick, normally fever and cough. After that, I have to go through all the training again just to get back up to my normal weight and stamina. I think I sounded a bit daft. Anyway, my plan now is to take more care on my body. Even though I still have late night sleep but believe me, I am trying hard to sleep early. It’s just that I have too much things to think lately.

During my last Body Attack session, the instructor mentioned that she will be opening a new class on Friday. I think only a third of the class was kind of interested in it as the class will be set to start from 1930. It’s kind of late, especially it’s a Friday night. The class is called Bokwa and it’s kind of like the latest keeping fit trend. Much like Zumba fever. I looked at some videos on the internet regarding Bokwa but they didn’t look interesting. I didn’t think it’s as high energy as Body Attack and the routine was like repeating all the time. When it’s officially start, which I believe there will be certain charge since the instructor is going to rent the studio for the purpose of teaching Bokwa, I might go to the gym and have a peek. Chances are I won’t be interested in it though the instructor did mention that it’s more suitable for men than women. However, most of the students in Youtube Bokwa videos were women.

Every since Mee and I came back from our Australia and New Zealand trip, Mee has been texting my cousins in New Zealand through Viber. Most of the time, she was asking about home cook recipes as well as tailgating recipes from my aunt. Since then, Mee has been following those tips and advices in her everyday cooking. One of the problems, which is not related to those recipes, is Viber. Mee’s iPhone is still running on iOS 4.3.3 and I have been urging her to update it to the latest iOS 5.1. Viber is the culprit as there is not way of doing a backup on the messages and neither does iTunes backup Viber. I can’t imagine why such a popular app is so poorly designed. It’s free but there are a lot of free apps that are designed better than that.

The most annoying thing was when I tweeted Viber regarding turning off notifications whenever I received a text message. Viber support then tweeted that I can turn off my phone’s notifications. My phone has its own notification settings, my message app has its own notification settings, Whatsapp has its own notification settings and even my alarm has its own notification settings. Judging from what the Viber support has told me, they don’t seem to have a great deal of knowledge on mobile phone user experiences. I might as well power off my mobile phone if I were to continue using Viber. In fact, it might be a myth why so many users using Viber. It’s free but not great.

On another note, I better ask Mee to copy out her Viber messages manually before her messages get out of control.

One of my housemates is about to move out at the end of this month I think. It’s funny that we never heard anything from our landlord. I thought we should always be informed about anything that is happening or going to happen in our rented house. We wouldn’t want to come home one day and find a “stranger” walking in the house. Anyway, I am going to be the bad guy now and say that it’s good that the fellow housemate moves out. She has been a total nightmare for the past year. Even more ridiculous is that our landlord seems to always listen to what she says without investigate. Due to an incident, Mee and I found out her true colours and we just keep a distance from her. Unknowingly to us, she just keeps complaining to the landlord about us.

We couldn’t care much and if there’s something serious, I am sure that the landlord will talk directly to us. I am pretty sure that we haven’t done anything wrong. Otherwise, the landlord would have spoken to us if anything she says was valid.

Well, even though she is only renting a small single room, I bet that she has as many things as Mee and I have in this house. She starts to pack her stuffs into boxes and moves them into the living room. I saw a brand new dvd storage box and come on, who still uses that kind of thing? I thought everything went digital a long time ago except games and she is definitely not a gamer. On the other hand, there are less and less gamers buying games in the form of dvd nowadays.

I can’t wait for a new guy or gal to move in but hopefully, that person will be a good one though chances are quite slim considering that the landlord doesn’t have a good instinct. Maybe he just wants money rather than having a good tenant.