Tuesday, December 29, 2009

10, 9, 8,.... 3, 2, 1...

Its the annual endless-Top 10-lists post!

Something to reflect on this past year and something to motivate me into the next year!

Top 10 Geeky Exploits!

1) Giving my PC a massive rehaul (half of it off the 2nd-hand market)
2) Getting sucked into the portal that is Hardwarezone.com.sg
3) Overclocking my PC + undervolting my notebook
4) Zhng my notebook cooler!
5) Going to 3 IT shows (missed the last one) and hanging around Sim Lim Sq countless times
6) Getting a "smart"phone (E63)
7) Joining the grid computing network
8) Taking the course "How Computers Work" and actually enjoyed it
9) Taking the course "FE1008 Computing" and didn't actually dislike it
10) Spending hours trying to get the perfect geeky desktop

Top 10 Green Exploits

1) Interning @ Alpha Biofuels Pte Ltd
2) Buying and using a "green" harddisk (Western Digital Caviar Green)
3) Donating processor time to run climate models (climateprediction.net)
4) Being a Karang Guni man for half a day
5) Continuing my abstinence from air-conditioning at home
6) Undervolting my notebook and CPU
7) Studying to be an Environmental Engineer
8) Staying in hall (which prevents me from playing games on my power hungry PC)
9) Sticking to the usual Saturday morning cycling to soccer routine
10) Farting less (and failing)

Top 10 Gaming Exploits

1) Dragon Age: Origins (still in the process of playing)
2) Batman Arkham Asylum
3) GTA IV
4) Modern Warfare 2
5) FIFA 10
6) Left 4 Dead
7) Team Fortress 2 (and its never ending updates!)
8) Atlantica Online + Rappelz (grew tired of both, but great games nonetheless)
9) Old Call of Duty games (Modern Warfare and World @ War)
10) Starcraft / Plants vs Zombies / World of Goo (ultimate nothing-to-do-in-hall games)

Top 10 Artistes (songs)

1) Fukuhara Miho -(Let it out, Yuki no Hikari, Believe my way)
2) Superfly (Ai wo Komete Hanabata o, Alright!, Precious Time)
3) YUI (Again, It's all too much)
4) Ayumi Hamasaki (You were... , Sunrise ~Love is all~)
5) Muse (Uprising, Undisclosed Desires)
6) Bugy Craxone (Come on, Cheeseburgers Diary)
7) chatmonchy (Last Love Letter, Kaze Fukeba Koi)
8) Do as Infinity (Umereyuku Monotachi e)
9) Lady Gaga (Bad Romance, Poker Face)
10) Michael Jackson (need I say more?)

Top 10 Things that affected me in a big way

1) ORD LO!
2) Interning @ Alpha Biofuels
3) Starting school once again
4) Staying in hall
5) QUIS
6) Hardwarezone
7) Turning 21 (not much of a big deal, but well, just to fill in the spaces...)
8) Economic recovery
9) Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
10) I can't think of a last one... Oh wait, does losing Ronaldo and Tevez count?

Goodbye 2009!

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