Updates

I've being living in my new apartment for about 6 weeks now. It took 3 weekends and around $2000 to get everything set up. I have to say that my place is quite beautiful and have a modern yet cozy feel to it. It's seriously wonderful and relaxing to have place to call my own!

An update on my horse riding crusade. I've been going horse riding every Thursday night and I'm progressing on cantering. I'm also supposed to do the sitting trot, I say 'supposed to' because I think it's physically impossible. During this rather uncomfortable ordeal, the horse is hurting me and I'm sure I'm hurting the horse...we'll see how that goes. Btw I'm still eagerly awaiting for jumping...

My Dell Adamo laptop broke on me, long story short - it's a piece of junk from the beginning. So tonight after some serious thought I got a Mac Pro (although I stubbornly refused to before cos I just don't like the look of it). But it's benefits seem to outweigh my initial and hopefully dying prejudice. 3 years later, when I get my signing contract, I'm going to get my beloved Sony Vaio Z series laptop :) I'll just suck it up for now with a Mac although at $1399 plus tax (and $200 applecare) there really shouldn't be any complaints.

Lately, I feel that I haven't being working hard enough. I've being going into work at 9 and leaving at 6. It would all be very well if I was productive, but I think waking up late really kills my day. Then again, it is SO hard to get up early. This can not keep going. I've decided to work from 8am to 6pm from now on and also come in on Saturdays as necessary. As time progresses, I hope to change to 7 to 6 workdays.

Space tourism

It looks like space tourism is becoming a reality within the next decade, with Boeing joining Virgin Galactic in this commercial market. Going to space has been a dream of mine since...forever?! That was the reason why I wanted to become an astronaut when I was small with hopes of exploration and discovery.

Now there are flights available at 200k per person for a 2hour Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ride. Where according to Virgin Galactic you will be a 'future astronaut' haha...This is like calling a passenger on a ship a 'sailor', anyway just one of their marketing strategies aimed at rich arrogant folks. People have been going to space and landing on the moon since decades ago. The only differences now are that this will be LEO flight, where the money comes and goes, and purpose of the flight. I want to go to space for exploration and hopefully learn and discover new things for the advancement of human race - which space tourism does not seem capable of offering. But hey, if I have money sitting around and could not find any better use for it for instance my less fortunate fellow human beings, then why not splurge on this indulgence...

Super sweet chocolate chip cookies

Very random post - but I haven't baked anything (haven't opened an oven) since coming to the states and a couple of days ago I decided to bake some cookies which was quite monumental. I can't exactly say that I made them all by myself cos I got one of those premixed packages. All I had to do was mix a stick of butter and an egg before adding the premix = cookie dough ready for baking. I baked them for 15min cos I like hard and crunchy cookies. The appetizing aroma from the oven was heavenly albeit a bit too sweet. Taste test...what did they put in those chocolate chips!? It has to be the sweetest thing that I've tasted! Nevertheless, I'm very happy with my otherwise tasty and hard cookies and from now on, I shall be making my own cookies rather than buying them. I see some nuts and perhaps dried fruits mixed in in the future and I'll also be making them from scratch.