Haruka....Exposed....

So! I bought my newest laptop in Korea via the lovely x-rate and decided to upgrade
Haruka (my VAIO) to speak English (English version of Vista). This Vaio is the hands down best designed notebook I've seen par none. Garnished in Carbon fiber and brushed aluminum it weights a mere 3.4 lbs, now less of course with my Ultron SSD hdd installed. The Ulton drive is blazing fast, giving 140/90 Sequential burst speed when clocked wit Crystal Mark.

The advantages of SSD are endlss, it produces basically no heat, 0db noise, uses less than half the power, and is more than 2x the speed of normal hdd's, can you say bye bye to the spinning hdd? The hdd was the bottleneck for PC's for a long time, well not anymore!

No more clicking noises, no more telltale sounds of the hdd breathing its last, those days are gone! My once-inernal SATA hdd's now sit in extenal 2.5" cases as backup devices :) Bond is using the newly introduced TT model in the upcoming "Quantum Solace" video, but I prefer this 13.3 size. 11.1 inches is a bit cramped for regular use like me. Either way they are both gorgeously designed in both terms of fashion and function.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. Check out the pics and I think you'll agree.
The official Sony site is here

Sony you do the BEST job at PC hardware construction and build quality PAR NONE.

Would I buy another in the future? Yes. Would I buy the new TT as part of my collection if I had the $$? Definitely. Am I addicted to the design and addicted to computers in general? Absolutely, I'm practically her slave.haha.

On a more practical note midterms didn't pan out so well, at all, really really depressing. I had 4 in one day, that was just sadistically wrong. Good news? This is only the 1/2way point of the semester, meaning betting B's is slightly possible.uggh.

A note on the weather, FINALLY its changed. It's nice and cold (I LOVE IT) and it rained some today. There's no SEASONS in California, and the weaher channel was a joke, haha. I love having distinct seasons!!

Android: Changing the market forever!!

Yes Apple, you should be sweating.
WELCOME to 2008, this is an OPEN market,
If you, Apple, don't want to develop a device
that utilizes this ideology, your market share
will slide, no matter how pretty or innovative
your device is. WOW OPEN SOURCE...

OK so update recently, I saw my Taiwanese friend
tonight!! I was so happy to meet up! We went to a
bar in Chunho. I'll visit them in the winter!

Ahh the exchange rate was really good, well comparatively
good for the US, it went up to 1394 Korean Won per US Dollar
which basically gave me 30% FREE money, come on that was
much safer than the stock market right now, haha..Shopping spree!!
Smart ppl probably stockpiled some $$, naturally.

Well I could say more but its 3:13 AM here and I have a quiz
for my Chinese Politics class at 9 AM... bedtime!!

I've been tracking the credit crisis very closely, its
both fascinating and horrifying. Considering I personally
have a good chunk of $ in stocks, it makes me v e r y wary
of whats going on.

Thank goodness the US govt learned from the great depression
and instead of trying to keep a balanced budget, the gov
is pumping money in. I say better to go into more debt than
go into depression 2.0 anyday!!!!! Enough for now!!

These are interesting times...

It's 3:11 AM here. I'm not sleeping yet
so I'm blogging. I just read about the suicide
of Choi Jin-Sil, plastered neatly all over
Korean and some international news. Korea is
seemingly catching up to Japan regarding
the number of suicides. Yuni, a singer,

Undoubtedly what I've found by being here
is the extremely strong feeling of the
collective, meaning you're either in or
out. Korean cultures is extremely collective
still, meaning they depend on the acceptance
of their peers. Korea is at an older stage
of social evolution than Japan. Japan is
at a stage where there's a feeling of life
being pointless, thus the highest suicide
rate. Once any society, reaches a place of
having all the creature comforts it social
disintegration begins. People live for themselves,
becoming more individualistic, even though
people in these countries, know that the
"stuff" doesn't satisfy we continue on in
a type of hamster race.

Korea is undoubtedly becoming more individualistic
and follow Japan to a point of meaninglessness
but not for awhile. In fact its Korea's
remaining traditional collective thinking
that gives it meaning, even though the
traditional thinking is about 20 years old.

Food for thought.