These three pictures sort of represent this year in a nutshell. I was either happy or crabby/wtfidiot throughout the year. Then there were all the stuff I bought this year . . . that ranged from books to mangas to dvds to video games and junk food. XD Anyway, here’s this year’s review.
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I went to Gyobo Moongo in Gwanghwamun, a local book store today. Had several heart attacks at the price. Never mind that these were all imported books, the prices stunned me as I prevented myself from screaming in the store.
While there, I saw the US version of The Tales of Beedle the Bard for 20,000 won, which is about $15. I practically threw that book aside as I fumed at the price. Remember, I’m used to the won rate where for the longest time it was 950 won to $1, so basically a 20,000 won book would have been $20 just six months ago. I’m a bit . . . finicky with these import price tags.
Anyway, later, I saw the UK version for 15,000 won which is $11.55. Now that I was willing to pay for since . . . well it’s the UK version. Not something I will find in the US military stores. Yes, I’m weird.
So now I have that.
Now that I’m a lot calmer than I was yesterday (which was a mixture of heaven and hell), let’s see if I can type more than a series of conjugation. I’m just glad Christmas is over. The ambush of relatives yesterday, with a 14-month old baby, drove me nuts. I felt like I was back in my old job. *shudders* Anyway.
Here’s the good stuff I received for Christmas.
* $100 from Daddy
* 80,000 won from Mummy
* 100,000 won from Aunt
* Giant cookie and other stash
* Prom Queen and Memento DVDs
* Gift card and a bunch of cards from friends
* Four-day weekend from my workplace
Here’s the “bad stuff” I received for Christmas.
* A letter from my financial headquarters saying that I owe them $173.65 for THEIR MISTAKE of overpaying me on my first pay cheque for the new job. GRRRR.
* An iPod Touch from Daddy that refused to work with the iTunes on my computer. !@#$!@#$ That’s what I was bitching about yesterday. Let’s just say I threw the thing back in the box, threw it on my dad’s bed, and told him I don’t want it even if it does work later. Screw that. I’ll just take a netbook over that POS.
Dear Apple,
You suck. iTunes sucks. iPod Touch sucks. Everything about you SUCK.
Yes, I can sort of conjugate. The point is, YOU SUCK.
Piss off and die for all I care. Thank you for making my Christmas Day a crappy one.
No Love — TC the Apple hater.
P.S. – All you Apple supporters, don’t bother trying to convince me how wonderful their products are. It’s not going to work. I need to find me some more anti-Apple friends.
P.P.S. – I hope everyone else have a good Christmas.
I mentioned how my mother received a new TV and how I’ve been cleaning my room. Combine that into one thing: clean up my TV/VCR/DVD/Game Consoles area to make way for my mother’s old tv.
I am now the proud owner of this 32″ LCD TV, to which I name Pita for being a pain in the arse with the hooking up process:
I spent the next hour or so hooking up my devices back to the TV. Dad and I hooked up the DVD player at first. Nothing would work until I said that perhaps we should try hooking the TV itself to the switchbox. That worked. Then by myself, I hooked up the VCR, thought the VCR died because when I tested it with a VHS, the VCR wouldn’t eject the tape. Luckily Daddy fixed that. Then after I decided to just put my Gamecube away, I hooked up my PlayStation 2, turned it on to test the new TV out with Suikoden Tactics.
HOMG. When I tested a DVD movie and a VHS movie, I wasn’t impressed or anything, but when I tested the video game . . . Let’s just say I had the biggest smile on my face and it’s a good thing I lost my voice for that moment since I would have screamed so loudly, my whole neighbourhood would have heard me. Just, bloody fucking WOW. Now I can see why people like these TVs, especially gamers.
