Transitioning from a SK LX to a N97

So it's been 3 weeks since I got the N97 from Nokia and I absolutely love it.

I had a lot of problems with the firmware at first (still do!) with the phone freezing up or the touchscreen not working. I had to do a factory reset (lost all my contacts, preferences, pictures, and downloaded apps) and this time, I chose not to download sooo many applications because they were found to be make the phone very buggy. Ever since, I haven't had these problems again.. but I still find the phone to be quite "slow" for a smartphone.

But I put up with the firmware issues because the hardware is just SO gorgeous!

But I have to say, the keyboard isn't as great as it looks! Being a physical qwerty keyboard with its keys decently spaced apart and buttons big enough (yes I'm hating about the blackberry!), I anticipated more convenience.

However, this keyboard is shit compared to what I previously used for 2 years, my Sidekick LX. I don't even mind that the space bar is ridiculously placed at the far bottom right, but I HATE how it's soooo tiny (spacebars are supposed to fit BOTH my thumbs!!) so I always hit "Sym" button next to it and it brings up the symbols-screen. Very annoying.

But the buttons do have a nice feel to them, but SK keyboard buttons have a better rubbery feel... and not as slippery.

That's all I really have to say... I have my last final tomorrow, at 3pm & then I'm leaving at around midnight. (taking the bus back to NYC!)

My plans for winter break... study for GMAT & hang out with my friends A LOT! We got some serious catching-up to do!!

I have SO much to study, so adios!

-Lina

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Western Digital Passport Essential :D

Ever since I've been having computer problems (I've reinstalled windows 2x in the past 6 months), I've been wishing for a portable external hard drive of my own.

I love gadgets. So I just had to get myself one of these.

Everyone has a black or a blue, and I really wanted something unique.

And they have some awesome new colors! It was so hard to decide. Aside of the boring old black, they have 10 other colors, from red, orange, yellow, 4 different blues, a pink, silver, and the classic white.

But these were my absolute favorite:


Pink's always a favorite of mine, and the orange and yellow are such brilliant & outstanding colors as well. I love brilliant colors! But the one that REALLY caught my eye was the second one, it's called "Ultra Mint".

The color looks kind of similiar to my Ice Blue DS Lite but perhaps darker.

So I ordered mine on the WD's website (I know it's much cheaper on Amazon and Newegg and such but they didn't have this color!). While the pink and the orange (my other options) were $99 on those websites, ultra mint ranged was about $150 on other websites. So I got mine on WD's website for $130!

320GB, because that was the biggest size they had in this color (but it'll suffice for my 10,000+ photos and 1000+ song files and 100+ HOUSE videos I'll be storing on it....)

Shipping was only $3!

I'm totally excited to get it in the mail.

Which reminds me.. I'm still waiting on my new DS case I ordered last week... I hate my awful tendency of ordering things on a Friday and having to wait through the non-business weekend!

As an update on my new logitech webcam, I'm totally lovin' it! Awesome picture AND video pixels, extremely clear sound, and the HD version is even better (but lags a little bit). Quick movement makes it a tad blurry but that doesn't seem to happen on oovoo!

On a sad note, I can't seem to find my new digital camera... where is it!!!

Also, I've been playing FF4 on DS for a past few weeks. Hehe

Meatball Parmesan Baked Sub!

So I must've been so hungry that my meatball parm tasted like the yummiest thing I've ever had. Even thought it was pretty burnt.

New Webcam! :D

So my boyfriend bought me a new webcam the other day and I just received the package today! (Right before my marketing exam, which two 2 hours.. what a drag!)

I'm installing the software right now.. I'm so excited!

It's the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 and here's what it looks like:

Friend's Night @ BCCC!

Only You Can Satisfy

In all of my life I'm searching
For what can be only found in You
Only You can satisfy
I've seen what the world can offer
In all that sway me I have found
Only You can satisfy, only You can satisfy

To live for Christ, I first must die
To all the rivals in my life
Only You can satisfy
Only You can satisfy
In everything I have in You
I find, You satisfy

In all that now lies forsaken
Nothing can match Your love for me
Only You can satisfy
Forever my heart awakened
To worship the One who sets me free
Only You can satisfy, only You can satisfy

To live for Christ, I first must die
To all the rivals in my life

Only You can satisfy
Only You can satisfy
In everything I have in You
I find, You satisfy, You satisfy

To live for Christ, I first must die
To all the rivals in my life

Only You can satisfy
Only You can satisfy
Only You can satisfy
Only You can satisfy

In everything I have in You
I find, You satisfy, You satisfy

:D

For some reason, I can't find this song on youtube or anything. I can only find it here.

Reality stings, bites, and cuts deep.

One of the best qualities you can have as a person is just to be humble. It is to realize where you are at so you can get out from there. I know where I want to go and I know where I am, but how do I get there? The safest route? Or the quickest route? Or the easiest route? Or the dangerous, slowest, hardest route?

These moments .

So I spent the whole weekend studying for my accounting exam. I was at Capen, studying for a total of 15 hours during Saturday and Sunday. Aside from my programming assignment and geology lab, I spent all of my time studying accounting, which, took my all.

I did manage to sleep, though very minimal, but I got through the exam (which took me the WHOLE 50 minutes, and almost ran outta time) successfully.

I'm pretty sure I got a few multiple choice questions wrong, but hopefully I'll make that up with the short-answer questions...

Don't get the wrong idea, I like accounting MUCH better than geology, world civ, american history, marketing, and all the other classes I have to take. Those classes are such a drag, but it is mostly memorizing facts :'(

I really need to do well this semester, perhaps a 4.0 again, to bump up my gpa.

I wish an awesome accounting internship would fall on my doorstep.

I spent my Valentine's day at the library, lol. I was upset that my package hadn't reached my boyfriend yet... I hope that grouchy fat post-office lady didn't put the package through ground mail... T__T

On a side note..

I'm very much upset about the plane crash that occured last Thursday night. The plane crashed in Clarence Center, Buffalo... which is a 20something minute drive from where I am! How scary is that? I'm in the process of deciding where to take the bus or plane back to NYC for spring break ...

I hope the family/loved ones of the people on that plane will be comforted. RIP to the ones who didn't make it... they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

However, to the couple who missed their flight and was supposed to be on that flight, WOW! Lucky people...

I definitely understand that some things are just out of our control...

Hmm, now that I am free from studying, I'm going to watch some dramas lol.

Episode 11 and 12 is out for Love & Bread! Yay<3

EDIT: I realized, after watching episode 12, that it was the final episode! Wtheck? This drama is only 12 episodes? It had soo much potential, and the story and the characters were all so great! The ending was so rushed, really. I felt like the writers got stuck and just bullshitted some crappy ending. What a disappointment.

New Drama!

Currently Watching:

Love Or Bread!

And so it begins... Spring '09 semester

So I've been back in UB for 5 days or so and I've been having a lot of computer problems.

The first was a server issue going on in the entire campus where the LAN internet, wireless internet, blackboard, and everything else was having a service outage. It wasn't so bad for me, but a lot of other people couldn't get online to check their class schedules, and there's also that class add/drop period going on..

That's fixed.

And then, just yesterday my computer got a virus.. some kind of worm/trojan whatever. I tried to get rid of it, and FAST because I had to book my springbreak flight and buy textbooks.

In the end, I decided it was about time to format and reinstall my Windows. Sadly, though, I did not have a Windows XP cd so I had to make do with my Windows Vista cd. I've never been fond of Vista, so I'll have to suck it up.

On a side note, since my roommate moved out and I haven't gotten a new roommate as of YET, I've had the double room all to myself, which has both good and bad sides to it.

I've changed the furniture around a bit, so there's a lot of room for me now.

I've also moved my desk and TV around so I can watch TV comfortably from my deskseat as well as from my bed lol.

The rooms smells so much cleaner! My mom bought me one of those plug-it-in air fresheners and it's soo strong (not necessarily a good thing).

The room is also MUCH brighter because I've opened all the blinds lol. I love walking into my room when I come back from class and it's like sooo bright that I don't even need to turn on the lights. XD

I've also been able to keep my room clean! Which is amazing.. since everyone seems to think I'm such a lazy person ._.

However, it does get lonely sometimes. But I don't think I would want a stranger for a roommate anyways. But I'm still waiting to see if anyone will move in.

My classes have been good too. However, I have yet to buy textbooks... yiikes.

I don't have my Aero job anymore.. and I don't want to ask my parents for money all the time. So I'm being all stingy about textbook-shopping.. always looking for a cheaper deal. Sigh.

Also, I left my contact solution at home. So I've been wearing my glasses this whole week and it's hurting the area that the nose-piece is supposed to protect.

I'm watching Diego the Explorer, and I'm wondering: is he like the boyfriend of Dora's? Or brother? I don't know.. but I like Dora so much better. Her bookbag was purple.

So I'm so angry because I just bought my A&F jacket (Clarissa) for $130 (originally $200) on clearance... and NOW, it's down to $80!! However, they only have my color (brown) in XS, but still have the other color (blue) in all sizes. I guess I bought the right color! So there's a lot of deals going on right now.. and I'm so tempted to buybuybuy!! But then again, I must save my money...

Stuck in the Airport for 7 hours!

Yesterday was such a boring day, because I spent the whole day at the airport.

My flight's departure was 10:45. Though I left the house at 9:30, I arrived at the airport at 10:00 because of the terrible snow/ice everywhere. Then, there was the longest line ever for the check-in and bag drop. It took 30 minutes to check my bag!

And then I hurried over to the security gate, which also had a line, and it took about 7 or 8 minutes to get through it.

And when I thought it couldn't get worse, my gate (gate 16) was the farthest one. And when I got there, the doors had closed. Though it was still 10:40 and 5 minutes before scheduled departure, they had closed the doors a little early. What luck.

Sweating & exhausted from all that running, I walked over to customer service desk. The lady said the next 2 flights for Buffalo were full, so the best next thing was to be put on standby and if there are no-shows for the those flights, I can take their seat.

So I waited for the 2:20pm flight, playing my DS (Professor Layton and the Curious Village) the whole time, and when they finally started boarding, there weren't enough seats for all of us standbys (there were so many!)

And so, I waited for the 5:00pm flight, but I had lost much hope.. and thought about paying a $40 fee to change my flight to the 6:35pm (that was the only one that wasn't full) but decided to wait it out.

By then, my DS was out of battery, leaving me bored shitless. And so I sat there... and surely enough, 5 o'clock flight came along and I had myself a seat on the plane!

The plane was queued for quite some time, though.. about an hour... so we didn't take off until 6. But I was just glad to be on it. I arrived at NYC a little after 7 and went down to baggage claim. I couldn't find my luggage on the belt, so I got a bit anxious... but soon found it later (someone had taken it off the belt and placed it in some abandoned corner in the airport T__T).

That was my terrible day.

And today, I started my spring '09 semester. I had 4 classes today, starting at 9.. with no breaks in-between! Tiresome, indeed.

At least the internet is working now.

And, my roommate moved out. So half of the room is completely bare (with just plain furniture) and the room looks really big. I'm pretty sure there will be someone else moving in soon, and although part of me would like the room to myself, I will be looking forward to meeting my new roommate.

I'm eating congee lol. My mom bought me a mini-ricecooker. Woohoo!

I hate Jetblue

So I've having the worst of luck with airplanes lately..

First is when my plane ran into a bird in the sky and it damaged the engine so we had to turn back... and switch onto another airplane (mad delay!!)

And now.. my flight on Sunday back to Buffalo is cancelled.

20th

Sometimes it feel like you're staring back at yourself in the mirror, and watching your reflection rot. And so you lift your hand to touch your face... still as fresh and smooth as ever.

So I'm 20 today. But I don't feel as happy as I had been on my 19th, 18th, 17th, and so on. Birthdays come and go, each one becoming more and more insignificant.

On a side note, I'm totally into this new DS game I've been playing.. Professor Layton and the Curious Village! :D

Anyway, gotta go blowdry my hair now...