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Counting down for Saturday…

Mean while, the induction letter seriously take such a long time. I’m getting abit restless already. As much as I dreaded the working life, especially when everybody who is working is telling stories which are not at all inspiring; I have a very big reason for me to get my work flowing.

And the reason is…

Hoobastank - The Reason

Of the completely unrelated story, I gotta upgrade my Mac to OS X 10.5.8 in order to use GIMP, the graphic software but after reading a whole lot tutorial and forum, I guess I’ll scrap the idea. It is too troublesome and too risky, this Mac is too new to be spoilt.

So, I’ll still use whatever free apps I could except GIMP. Waiting for the Photoshop to finish download and hopefully it runs well.

My camera’s CF card is still a mystery. I don’t know how to make it kiss with this Mac. Weird. Nevermind, I’ll force both of them to kiss later.

Can’t wait for Saturday! Somebody is coming.

Went KL for the first time with family.

2 people, same place, yet didn’t meet up. Stress.

Father and sons time.

Thanks Mum for this, even thou I gotta pay back. Stress x 2.

Now I gotta figure how to convert the CF card into Mac compatible. Sigh. Meaning once I use Mac, I can’t change it back to the Windows one? Haiyo. Somebody be my sifu can or not. Auntie Z2 not helping nih, she busy.

Got my Mac yesterday.

Well, the reason I would purchase a Mac is just like why other people. If you are unsure about that, you can try to ask around. Haha.

Basically for me it is more like, venturing into something new. Life is interesting and plus I’m FREE now, so it is better to pick up something new, learn something more exciting and hopefully, it does functions like what other people says - better than Windows.

But after a day of playing with this, and I’m finally getting some micro-enlightenments. Other than that, it is still a total disaster.

For example,

1. The ‘delete’ button is actually ‘backspace’.
2. The ‘right-click’ on the mouse becomes ‘2 fingers on trackpad + click’.
3. No ‘End’ & ‘Home’ buttons.
4. Lots of ‘Command’, ‘Option’ & ‘Control’ buttons.
5. Installing program is so simple, until you can’t believe that it is installed.
6. The ‘Scroll faster’ part of the touchpad becomes ‘2 fingers scrolling’.
7. iTunes sucks. It always duplicate the songs that I pull into it. And sometimes refuse to recognize some of the songs.
8. Hassle to format my external hard drive into Mac compatible platform. Don’t know how to do it yet.

Besides these disasters, I’m totally loving,

1. The Expose. Like, come on man, who doesn’t love the Expose.
2. The Space. Totally understand why they invented this, and totally fall in love with bring up windows from left, right, up & down and repeat it infinite times.
3. Everything looks too cozy. I think something get lost somewhere and I don’t know where it is but heck, I’ll find out later.
4. In sync with iPhone. Now my Mac has all my contacts and calendar!
5. The calendar is again a very nice application to use
6. Still figuring out the dashboard, too little things there, I would love to make it explode with stuffs.
7. Love the Adium app. If you are using a Mac, go get it! It is free, and it has this LRT sound that it makes when people sign in to their IM. Is like directly after the sound, you can say ‘Next station, Masjid Jamek’. LOL.

I think I’ll blog until here for today. My card reader kong-ed so I can’t download any pics from the CF card. Sigh. Lotsa old friends in town these few days. Can go out yumcha more often :)