getting audiophilic!

Just got some bad news yesterday, I won't be getting my commission from PC FAIR till end of June. What the heck right? its been 2 months already and I haven't been fully paid! How stupid. Argghhh...



So this means I'll have to wait for another month till I can get my headphone amp. ONE MONTH.. I've been intensively researching on which and what is more worth buying, and the final verdict is the Ibasso D2 Boa. This amp will actually blow my budget twice with some spare(RM550++). I figured I won't be changing amps as often as changing headphones, so might as well get a good one.



Frankly speaking, I do have enough fundings now to buy the amp, but after doing so will leave me without a single penny to survive. I'll have to rely on cheese+crackers for a month! So should I?? I'm aiming for my next pair of cans, Grado SR60 which will cost another bunch of paychecks. :( why am I poor???




I when to test out LifeImpact's new portable sound system in church just now, the Alto OEX 900. At first glance, it looks like a Star Trek space ship, or futuristic Japanese custom vans complete with its own hood ornament! Its GIGANTIC and HEAVY. Certainly bulky by all means.



It sounded OK. Just OK, neither good nor bad.. Probably I'm too used to have awesome sounding headphones slapped against my ears. Hahaha.. Well we'll have to see how it performs at the coming Life Game!

Speaking of which, I'll be gone for a total 8 days for the next 2 weeks for camp! YAY!!!!

I AM

I am useless, boring, dull, stupid, dumb, lazy, weak, evil, ugly, small, slow, selfish, greedy, rude, rebellious, irresponsible, unreliable, dishonest, forgetful, immature, arrogant, hypocritical, self-centered, lustful, evil, useless, boring, dull, stupid, dumb, lazy, weak, evil, ugly, small, slow, selfish, greedy, rude, rebellious, irresponsible, unreliable, dishonest, forgetful, immature, arrogant, hypocritical, self-centered, lustful, evil, useless, boring, dull, stupid, dumb, lazy, weak, evil, ugly, small, slow, selfish, greedy, rude, rebellious, irresponsible, unreliable, dishonest, forgetful, immature, arrogant, hypocritical, self-centered, lustful, evil, useless, boring, dull, stupid, dumb, lazy, weak, evil, ugly, small, slow, selfish, greedy, rude, rebellious, irresponsible, unreliable, dishonest, forgetful, immature, arrogant, hypocritical, self-centered, lustful, evil,rebellious, irresponsible, unreliable, slow, dumb, evil, dishonest, forgetful, immature, arrogant...
LOVED.

Nevertheless - O'Child

Hey guys! Really sorry for the lack of updates I was busy for the past week. Don't you hate it when the holiday mood only comes at the end of the holiday? Arghh... Well, I did have a great week so fair enough. College starts on monday.............


So last week a basketball team from California Baptist University came for clinics and matches. Its actually a mission trip for them, so me and Amos was stuck with them for the whole 5 days they were here. Hahaha, I'm not complaining I really did had a blast with them.


We basically went around Penang playing with colleges and running clinics, above that we also went to temples, the beach, food and everything fun. They're a bunch of fun people! Hahaha miss you guys!






I worked last week too! I had two "clients" in need for some designing. One was my aunt back home, her studio is gonna host a photography workshop and need some flyers. I only helped in hope of getting fed well when I go back! HAHAHA Kidding!



Another was a organization I won't name for now. I'm to draw up a logo, its still work in progress so I'll tell you guys more later. Currently having fun with it though I have designed about 50+ different logos.




Today I've finally got my copy of UFC Undisputed 2009! So far its fun but very in dept as far as for the moves goes, definitely need some time to get used to it. Its fun beating the crap out of people sometimes.. The game is brutal. Hard to believe its a legalized sport!




So there's a little update from me just for the sake of updating.. Hahaha, back to the games!

paintcheck! paincheck!!

game on!

Paintball is still awesome!! A bunch of us LifeImpact people went for paintball yesterday. It was fun but tiring.. Probably most of us were campers thats why we got tired easily by waiting. Pictures on facebook. Anyone else wanna play pm me!

actual picture!

Oh by the way, I caught a paintball pallet. Yes I caught it and it was intact. Well not by my bare hands so to say but I used my arm in a way.

Me(black)&Amos(green) VS. Instructor(blue)

Was playing 2 on 1 with the instructor and he got me pinned down. One of his pallet scraped pass my marker then off my wrist and went straight into my sleeves. As you can see I was wearing long sleeves, I could feel the pallet rolling all the way down to my elbow and it was cold. Was really a wtheck moment..

muzzle flash!

12pm : Lights Out

As some of you may know, people are sleeping very late these days. I am no different. Well I'm on holidays okay, so don't lecture me. I actually want to sleep early tonight, but can't. I can't because I'm still psyched up with 3 of the following combinations.

1. Teh Ais
2. Call of Duty 4
3. Pete Tong

Everybody knows caffeine works wonders for deadlines. But misuse could bring lots of damage. Like 3 hours extra of your night? Bad bad bad.. Its the usual, went for supper after cell group, over ate, over drank. Not like I'll get fat, but oh how I wish I could.







After that 3 of us went to Qzone for some LAN games. We played abit of Left 4 Dead, Battlefield and etc. Oh btw Left 4 Dead is SO BORING now.. Keep doing the same thing, run, whack, shoot, heal, help Zoey up, tank, whack, run.. Boringggg.... So we played Battlefield a bit and so on so forth.



Right before leaving I overhead someone shouted:"#$%^&* you and your airstrikes!". Without thinking I quickly booted up CoD4 and joined in, and boy was it fun. It was Free for All, every man for themselves and damn I was on a pwnage! No kidding! I went on streaks after streaks as they were quite new to the game(basically you just have run like rambo). Not so challenging but FUN.... got lots of grenade and knife kills. KNIFE KILLS!! I've hardly knife killed anyone on Xbox Live but here I got Knife Mastery... Awesome! Sadly I only got to play 1 and a half rounds as it was already late and my friends had to leave... Sighh.....






And now as I'm blogging this, I'm listening to Pete Tong's deafening mix! I'm 109 mins in of the 125min mix... TOTALLY AWESOME.. Its so good that I couldn't help but leave my headphones on and finish the mix! its GREAT!! Download it HERE(Right-Click, Save as.)

You're 87% Malibu Barbie!

I've just finish listening to Diplo's Essential Mix.. I've got to say its an amazing 2 hour set!!! Its mostly mashups, hip hop, house, drum&bass and etc.. The following is a 10 min preview, ignore the first 1 half min of nonsense though.. Download link provided!





Diplo Essential Mix Part 1

Diplo Essential Mix Part 2



I'm interested in buying myself a headphone amp. Yes you heard me, Headphone Amp. I know it may sound stupid that headphones even need amplication at all but yes some headphones do need it.



Generally amps make things go louder everybody knows that, but its stupid if thats all I'm paying for(see the price tag below). The amp can significantly improve the sound quality provided you have a pair of quality headphones(not trashy white Ipod Earbuds). I'm not complaining about my current headphones which cost more than a month's allowance, but it could sound so much better. And not forgetting I'll sure get higher end headphones(>RM500) in the near future. So by then, it will be impossible to not have an amp to drive them.



Now the amp I'm aiming for is Ibasso D2 Boa. The downside is it costs RM500+ or so.. Damn it. Oh btw, it doubles as a USB sound card too. Just plug it in, and say bye bye to the built in crap of your PC! Rm500...... argh! got to worrkkk........