It takes only a day out of the usual routine to get me thinking about life and stuff.

Was at home sick yesterday with a bad cough and I should listen to advice to either go see a doctor or take medication. I did neither but was lucky enough to get temporary relief from my housemate in the form on some menthol/aniseed sweets that reduced the irritability of my throat and hence reduced my cough.

I’ve been sitting and wondering, waiting for things to happen. There always seems to be a want or need that needs to wait in line for it to be fulfilled. Been wanting to get some camera lenses but you pay a few hundred dollars extra if you buy them in Australia, as compared to buying them in Malaysia. You wonder why it’s so much cheaper back home, but if you were to take Malaysian salaries into account, dollar for dollar, I’m still paying much less if I were to buy it here in Melbourne. Heh, it’s a bad habit of mine to obsess over things until I get them, and I keep going over the specifications and facts of the item, memorising it’s strong points and what it is capable of. Then there are the avenues of options to acquiring stuff via eBay, or getting a cousin to bring stuff back for me. Heh, none of this materialised over the last 24 hours and I think I should just stick to the original plan of acquiring ONE piece of glass when I go back at the end of the year (only have two contenders now, a macro and an ultra wide lens, whether it is a Nikon or third party lens, that is still open to debate).

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I’ve been having a nagging feeling of getting a backup hard drive for my stuff and after last night’s scare, I think I will get it today. My computer’s been crashing randomly and I think an unresolved error on one of the hard disk partitions made my PC fall over. As this continuously happened, the problem grew more and more serious until finally last night, my computer decided to stop booting into Windows and gave me a BSOD (blue screen of death) error instead. Spent 3 hours and finally managed to get it working again and there was a scare as the partition that died was the one that housed my photos. No longer procrastinating, I’m buying an external drive and once that is copied over, a DVD copy of all the photos.

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Heh, another thing on my mind is the idea of getting a car. I’m still amazed at the fact that I have saved enough for half a Civic or Jazz after having worked for only a year. Again contrasting this to Malaysian salaries and expenditures. A Civic costs RM120k new while it costs AUD21k here new, albeit with slightly less accessories. In Malaysia, at the price of vehicles, to remain competitive, you throw in everything, even a steering lock (heh, or maybe not, but just intended for dramatism). There are lots of things to compare and contrast between a life back home and one over here in Melbourne (and that would be a story for another day). I just do not understand why people have to sell themselves out to hefty personal loans to purchase a car of choice and to pay off that loan over a few years, even as long as a decade.

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Anyway, done with ranting. Missed a day of work and all recharged and ready to get stuff done. As antisocial as I am, I need the routine of talking to people early in the morning, as in physically meeting and exchanging words, and not that ‘words popping up on your screen’ stuff. Okay, time to fly.