Canberra training

Jun 272011
 

I was in Canberra last week, braving the cold weather (I think it got down to negatives at night with wind chill). It was all for 5 days of training, bonding and learning for my departure to Samoa.

I learnt a lot. Samoan culture is quite interesting and I am more excited than ever to go. Some fears were allayed, some other worries cropped up but overall I think I will manage. There are worse ways to spend a year than sunny Apia with its tropical charms and island life.

In between meeting my new assignment buddies, learning, going out, and writing a letter to myself to be opened in a year, there were some near evacuations.

Canberra fire

The hotel behind mine just caught on fire. There were camera men running down from various places trying to get footage, and prettier presenters walking slower down the to the scene to get themselves in front of the camera. It was actually quite exciting for a while there. Before I decided to take a nap. The Canberra weather has given me a cold.

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Legion and Hamachi

Jun 162011
 

It’s gotten to a point now that I am getting more and more tired and unmotivated. Even to post on this great Ultimate Sigh blog. For a while now I’ve been meaning to post something on my recent Mageia transition from Mandriva 2010.2. But I just can’t be bothered. Instead I attempted to get Legion TD going over a Hamachi network so I can LAN play with Ngai.

What started off as potentially a quick game of LAN at 8 didn’t see us playing until 1130, a full 3.5hours later that night. It all stemmed from the fact that I didn’t have legitimate keys to play on Battle.net, but still wanted to multiplayer with Ngai. After changing network configurations, turning off firewalls, Ngai reinstalling War 3, Frozen Throne and patches in his Windows partition, we still didn’t get it working. I had to get a cd key changer and use someone else’s keys to go on Bnet. But even then we couldn’t get into a game with each other until Ngai fiddled around with port forwarding. All this just to play 30minutes of the game before my wireless got cut for a while. It’s a sigh even though we were trying to be sigh free.

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Strata Sigh

Jun 082011
 

This sigh is an ultimate mega super sigh to the extreme. My strata is already a whopping $495.95 per quarter, for a 1 bedroom apartment in a complex with nothing except a lift as an amenity. Now I have a notice that it will be increased by another $400 to $470 per quarter!!

This increase in strata will take my quarterly fees up to $900 – $970 for the next 5 years. The reason for this massive hike (almost doubling) is that the building needs to undergo extensive defect remediation. The builder, who is dodge to the extreme, has basically declared bankruptcy and cannot fund the repairs. Despite, of course, the building still being new enough to fall under “builders’ warranty”. Pretty frustrated at the good money down the drain. It is time to sigh.

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Fucking Red Ring of DEATH!

Jun 012011
 

You know what it looks like:
RROD

My 3 (and a bit year old) Xbox360 just konked out all of a sudden without warning whilst playing Final Fantasy 13 (hey the game grows on you). One minute you are slaying some critters and the next it’s frozen and flashing those fucking 3 red lights at you. I’ve looked on the web for solutions. There’s power cycling, there’s the one with covering it in a towel. But they may resurrect it for a minute but as soon as you load something…BANG rrod.

Microsoft tech support basically says $100 please for repair as the 3 year warranty just rang out a few weeks ago on my console. How unlucky and coincidental is that? Is this precision engineering that NASA can be proud of? So tempted to get it repaired…but then again I am shipping off to sunny Samoa soon.

Calm blue ocean…calm blue ocean…

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