Random: recent events recap – June/July 2009

o hai loyal fans of keinism. welcome back to the bi-monthly update of kein’s life. I was actually thinking that this entry would be a 50% improvement on the last post, being updated only *one* month after the previous, which turned out to be an erroneous judgement pfft.

oh well.

I was scribbling in an A5 notebook I carry around these days, making good use of my time on the train to sum up points for this post.

Part of the page read:

After moving to AU.
less KTV. less movies. less suppers. less phone bills.
less SWEAT and IPPT!

(I think the last two points overruled the earlier ones totally.)

And I concluded recently that my life consists of chasing people up on outstanding items. I nag at my boss for things he owes me, I email my sysadmin daily to keep things moving, I email my web designer to push him along, and I even do it at home (i.e. reminding V to do stuff.) Life is a nag, literally.

I think I should look into potential further integration with Facebook/Wordpress – I update more shit on FB than I do on the blog these days. Maybe when Google Wave comes along, everything will change. Until thennnnnnnnnn, look below.

Random items I have been involved with for the past month(s):
Work. Work has been challenging recently, what with live implementation of the pfsense box as a captive portal (with freeRADIUS authentication to boot), and to be at the helm on a ride to totally revamp the company website. It feels great to be in control and to be making a difference! (I’ll write a separate entry on pfsense later; did I mention that it’s awesome stuff? But that one’s too techie, so I’ll leave it out in this post.)

inFAMOUS. my boss made an impulse buy on a PS3 recently, and very kindly lent me inFAMOUS. What is that? One of the better games made this year, that’s for sure. It’s been keeping me entertained for the past two weeks.

Short review: great graphics, great gameplay, great plot. Side missions more varied than Assassin’s Creed, but start to get repetitive towards the end. I’m aiming to complete the game by the end of this week.

StudentZone. Current part-time pursuit. SZ is about building up an information website for university students in Australia. Marketing is going in fits and starts however, thanks to WK being too busy with his work in Brunei. Meanwhile, I was busy getting my hands dirty with PHP, Twitter, the Facebook fan page, Google Analytics, and sourcing for article topics. I would appreciate some help on this, so if you have any friends who are studying in Australia (Melbourne especially) – tell them about StudentZone @ www.studentzone.com.au.

Cookie. Started getting cranky and got all aggro on every other human and dog in her vicinity. Barking non-stop, growling and so on.

The solution? I took her for more walks. Try walking your dog at 0700hrs in the fcukin’ morning when it’s five degrees – that’s what discipline is about. And yes, I lack discipline because I gave that idea up after one week. I walk her after dinner these days, which is a little easier. Getting up in this weather takes mind power. A lot of it.

DVD watching. I have been steadily increasing the amount of DVDs at home – Sanity’s earned their fair share from me this year. Damn them and their 3 for $40 sales!

Caught Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay a couple of nights ago – hilarious. And yes,

Movie watching. Did I say that I hated the Transformers movie franchise? Well, nothing much’s changed. I think Michael Bay is good at what he does, but he messed up the robots big time. Come on, seriously. Decepticons that acted like friggin’ primal beasts instead of intelligent beings? Not to mention the fact that the robots looked like crap. All of ‘em. And need I mention how badly Devastator was mashed up? Total WTF moment. Moral of the Transformers 2 movie – you only need the US army, Autobots go home please.

And yes, Megan Fox is still hot. Very delectable. You have to give Bay credit for the slow motion scenes, really. And I watched the movie in a wide screen theatre, so it was slow mo wide screen bouncing in action o.O

That’s it for now.

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Tags: FREERadius, Harold and Kumar, inFAMOUS, life, Megan Fox, movie, pfsense, PS3, StudentZone, Transformers

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