AJ Jorge October 30th, 2008
With the influx of gadgets in our hands, Pen and I decided to christen each of them yesterday. We were sort of doing this tradition few years back when we started to call our shared desktop in UP as “Tower1″ in honor of the Sept 11 tragedy – the day we also bought that desktop.
So how did our naming went? We zoomed in for a certain theme first. Fruits? Solar system? Actors? Mathematicians (ewww)?
We settled for the Greek mythos.
My Mac is Zeus. The god of gods.
Pen’s laptop is Nyx – “Goddess of darkness/night. She is also the only being from which Zeus turned from when her son Hypnos, who had angered Zeus, hid behind her.”
Our iPhones are twins so we have Apollo and Artemis.
My 40gb hdd is Achilles cause is slowly dying on me now (have to remember to back up the files!). My 512mb thumdrive is Borus – a mortal, manipulated by the gods (Zeus and Nyx). My 2gb thumdrive is Creon while Pen’s 2gb thumbdrive is Electra. Pen’s 320gb HDD is Dia while my 500gb is Hektor. And finally, the youngest of them all, my 320gb HDD is Kratos (the main character in God of War).
Our PSPs on the other hand being a gaming console, we settled for the Norse gods. We named them Loki and Freyja.
AJ Jorge October 26th, 2008
An Apple a day. That’s what.
It’s a Pro. Pen pushed me very hard to buy the pro. I’m loving it!
It took a lot of guts and cross computations if we could afford it. Well, we could not afford it with a one-time-big-time payment so we settled to stretch it out for 12 months.
Now I’m in the process of transferring my files to the new machine and of course configuring it.
So happy.
Thanks a lot Pen!
penny July 2nd, 2008
I sported a very bad headache this afternoon. I had meant to meet with an academic today, but by some fate issue (don’t ask me what I mean, I know I’m cryptic, I’ve been told many times) we ended up in two different suburbs. So anyway, the headache. It literally felt like my head was a tree trunk with two axe blades wedged on it. I spent some time walking in Parramatta streets to get some air. I ended up spending a lot of time in a shop called JB Hifi.
It’s mostly an electronics shop with all the merch I can look and handle all day. Today I hovered over PSP games, DVDs, CDs, earphones, headphones, desktops and laptops.
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- Audio , Computers , DVD , Gadgets , Gaming , Geeky , Hobbies , Movies , Music , Random , Raves , Sydney
AJ Jorge March 11th, 2008
It’s been a long time that I am really into playing my PSP. I have been playing Puzzle Quest since forever. Then I tried Patapon a week before God of War is to be released and when I got a copy of God of War, Patapon was pushed back again. (Patapon is a good game though. I’ll play it again once I get tired of Kratos).
Been playing two straight nights before I go to bed.
These are my screenshots. Notice Patapon and Puzzle Quest in the background
Kratos!
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AJ Jorge July 15th, 2007
Finally bought my own.
After a long conversation with Pen while I was browsing DSLRs at Courts Megastore, I went home with a big smile on my face.
Courts Megastore
My Canon EOS 350D.
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AJ Jorge May 26th, 2007
I should have blogged this last week but I haven’t got time to sit down and blog unlike before.
My first gadget bought here in Singapore. 
A Maxtor 320gb External HDD!
Actually, this is not the first one. Last time I was here, I bought Pen a 2GB Creative Zen MP3 player. But this Maxtor is the first one for me.
Special thanks to Cia for sharing me her Dad’s membership number so I get the Member’s price and not the usual price. If not for her, I would have paid additional S$20 for the hard disk.
I felt that I badly needed to buy one as my hard drive space in my office issued laptop is slowly filling up. Now that we have broadband access in the condo, I can resume to get my fix (downloading what else?!). On top of that, my office mates are sharing their own divx movies and animes. Last week, I copied Books 1 & 2 of Avatar. I’m watching it and so far enjoying the story.
And surprise, surprise. My housemate got a free LG dvd component for his cable subscription. The good thing is, the component supports divx formats and has it’s own usb slot! Imagine the smile on my face when I saw that. We now have our own movie server at home and a video on demand service! Hahaha.
I made a quick reformat on the 320gb hdd though. The LG component usb slot only supports FAT16 and FAT32 formatting. Small price to pay for the happiness it will bring.
Panasonic 32″ TV + LG USB Component with DivX support + 320gb HDD. What else will you ask for?
AJ Jorge April 9th, 2007
Thanks again to Jie for assisting me in buying my new toy.
I just bought a silver edition Sony PSP this morning at EYO store in Greenhills. I could have waited to buy one in Singapore but I have to update the firmware here so that I can play iso games running in the memory stick (which I don’t know if I could do that in Singapore).
I’m excited as hell to play games in this gadget. I just wish God of War will have a version in this console. I loaded three games so far in my mem stick: NFS: Carbon, NBA Live 07 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Acquiring games is not a problem anymore. Aside from Jie, three of my officemates have PSP and copying games from them will not be an issue. The whole package deal is a bit pricey but I’m not complaining. I just want to have a portable console before I fly out.
Now all I have to do is copy games from the generous people and gaming anytime is now a possibility.
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penny April 3rd, 2007
One of the feeds I get on a regular basis is from Nature.com, and I think this article will interest some readers, specifically the gamers out there:
Computer-game console contributes to science
If reading this article doesn’t really tickle your fancy, just have a quick look at my tiny commentary. If you’re still not interested, please just have a look at the closing part of the article…
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AJ Jorge January 22nd, 2007
Naunahan lang ako ni Noims pero bibili rin ako ng Pedometer for my burnination of calories.
Mura lang yung binili ko sa JB’s Toy Shop sa may Park Square 1. On sale pa, 270 pesos. 360 pesos regular price. May FM radio yung isa pang model pero since may mp3 player naman ako, yung basic lang ang binili ko.
Yung tinignan ko sa Toby’s sa may Glorietta, ang mamahal! Buti na lang at tinuro ako ni Noims sa JB’s at nandun yung murang model.
Ngayon, kailangan ko na lang maka-10,000 steps a day.
AJ Jorge January 10th, 2007
Yesterday at the MacWorld 2007 Expo, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s new product – the Apple iPhone.
This must be a dream come true for all tech freaks out there. Imagine a very sleek iPod audio/video with great cellphone interface and true internet access at your fingertips.
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