Soba's Round

Lucky!

I went to buy some speakers for my laptop today at Harvey Norman with Bradley. I thought it was time I change to some decent ones instead of those puny onboard speakers. I finally chose an Altec Lansing model VSS2221 after a brief demo by the salesperson. I was gleefully happy to get those as they're pretty good.

We then proceeded back home to test them but boy was it a bummer. The speakers which works marvelously a while back went kaput. No sound whatsoever. Frustrated after fiddling with it, Bradley drove me back to the store to have it replaced(Bless you Brad). Then the luckiest thing happened. The salesperson in charge said nothing can be done with the oddly disfunctional speakers. In return, he offered to give me a replacement.

Bradley and I were half joking about getting a higher priced Altec Lansings as the replacement when the salesperson said he could try to give me a bargain on those. Moments later, he said he'll replace it with those speakers without paying any extra. The broken ones were $99.50, the new ones are $139. Hahaha! Quite a bargain eh?

(Thanks to the Harvey Norman Toowoomba's salesperson Josh)

The speakers.

The subwoofer.

Fog-a-listic

What sensible thing can a bunch of university students do during a foggy "Wow, its Silent Hill-esque" day after struggling relentlessly on assignments for weeks? Random photoshoot!!

Hmm..we're freezing here...**hint**

William: "Psst..smile dude.. Mic:"Me cool, me pose, me phwn!"

Dont worry ma, we're on Silent Hill.

When others croak, I sing

I'm gonna start a bit of nonsensical ranting here, so bear with me. The experience of not having the leasure(Yes, pleasure) of having full use of your eyesight has been downright frustrating, maddening but
suprisingly eye opening(LOL, can't help using this pun).

I can feel my zeal for learning increasing. I know I can achieve more. I know I can watch anime without my glasses. Ok, so I kinda made that last point up. I can say from my heart, I'll never see all things as the same as before after the glasses are back, with good measures.

Ok, end rant.

Look Ma, no glasses!

These few days wuthout glasses have been troublesome if not boring. However, I still manage to continue nearly 70% of my daily routine and chores. Here's a list of the things I've managed:

i) Go shopping in a busy shopping complex; picking up necessities and groceries(Thanks to well organised aisle and two helpful friends, Bradley and Ronny).

ii) Prepare simple meals that includes frying nuggets(!).

iii) Surf the web(and posting this post) albeit short visits.

iv) Finished watching "Fun With Dick and Jane". I swear the DVD quality was so good, I didn't have to squint..much.

v) Two full hours of Edith Piaf's classics. Poo poo pee doo!

Not bad eh? Well, for the down part, I have to contain myself from shouting at random times over boredom(Still sane..still sane). Will be getting my glasses in 4 days, so..wooohoo!

(Starts incessant shouting at background)

I see blur things

Damn..broke my glasses yesterday..and when I went to replace the lense today..I was so shocked at the exorbitant price. $183 for just one of side of the glasses. To make matters worse, it can only be fixed by Friday next week. So..yes..I'm posting this without my glasses on. Hmmm...hmmm..

ONE DAMN WHOLE WEEK WITH THIS BLURRY SIGHT!!

The doomed glasses...

Just great..its the holidays and I will be spending it squinting like an old grandpa.

USQ Harmony Day's Shots

USQ held a multicultural event called Harmony Day today. It is held to potray and share the different facets of the university students. Here's some pictures I took.

Robert and Ah Ra(Hmm..is this the correct spelling?).

Yours truly near the Japanese student's stall. Not doing and not thinking about what your thinking...

Me and Bradley, a chatty and friendly guy.

From left: Yee Cheong, Stephanie, myself, Henry(yeah..my name too!) and Felicia.

A choir-ristic performance.

A student representative performing the Dummy Dance(??)

Crawling Out Of The Hole..Kinda..

Osu! SOBA reporting from the lovely city of Toowoomba, Queensland..Australia! After being connection deprived for nearly a month's time, yours truly has been granted a small window of opportunity to write a bit on the experience that has he has gone through so far.

Hmm..I guess with reading the intro lines, you can safely assume, Yes; I'm alive and healthy just a little edgy without my daily dose of web-surfing+torrenting+junk mail+misc. Gahh...hopefully the connection will be established tomorrow(I've been saying that for a few times to several friends..I feel desperate).

Ok..on to the experience..well..lets just summarise this in a sentence. "Nice but getting cold, lots of shopping and eating." There. That should be enough. Oh? Not getting the whole picture? Let the following pictures tell the rest of the story.

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