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Early today, a very large package arrived at home. It was packed in a large box and even Mom had no idea what it is. To my surprise, it was from my brother who was in Europe. I had not heard from him since Thanksgiving because I was not home to chat with him last Christmas. No one in the family knows what that is.

I was a bit worried to open the package. It was addressed to my Mom but my name is written on the box itself. Worried, I called up my brother. My brother answered the phone and said, “are you calling because you received an insanely large package from me?”. It turned out it was a late Christmas gift for me. The shipment got delayed because of weather conditions.

Anyhow, drum rolls then I opened the package. It was a full sized keyboard! And not just any keyboard, but a dave smith! I was so happy and worried at the same time. I could not touch it at first. It was so shiny and so new. I felt like I was not worth it. Until now I still haven’t got the words to say thank you to my brother. Oh this is such a wonderful gift. I have always wanted one of these.

Here is a quick and easy way to get some free music: Download it from Youtube!
I love music and I love filling up my Itouch with a lot of it. However, most of the times, I do not want to buy music because if I do that I would not have anything left in my budget. Imagine buying 32 gig of songs, see how long you’ll last.
Anyhow, a friend suggested YouTube to MP3 downloader, a program that allows you to download just the MP3 in the video.

I used to do this by downloading the whole video then converting it down to audio only. Fortunately, this solution is much simpler.

Some of you guys may not agree with me, telling me that MP3′s sold in itunes still have better quality. Yes that is true. However, if you are not an audiophile you would not recognize the difference of a 192 kbps to a 128 kbps bit rate of an MP3. But you will have to agree that youtube already has quality audio. Good enough for the masses.

I just recently found out that my brother will become a doctor soon. If that actually happens that means he will be getting his fourth degree. Dude, I mean, fourth degree, really? How does one person become a fan of studying something so much to reach four degrees in that field? I know my attention span can’t handle it. My brother just earned even more respect from me. Seriously.

I want to get him something special as a form of congratulating him on his well deserved degrees. He has always been fond of pretty watches and he spends about a third of his salary to buy new watches, so I decided on buying him one of those michael kors watches. I still haven’t decided on which one to buy yet though.

Do you guys have any specific idea on which one I should get for him? So far all I’ve narrowed down from his owned watches would be that most of them are black, and I don’t really think that’s much to go by. Haha! A little help, please?

I have been very fond of gardening since I can remember. In my backyard, I have vegetables, trees, flowering plants and fruit bearing ones. I just love it when my neighbors envy my lemons and oranges, just kidding.

Anyhow, I attended a church gathering yesterday and one of the members, Candice, was offering organic vegetables at the end of the worship session. I was not interested at first because I basically have all the vegetables I eat right at my own backyard. However, Candice also brought some pictures of her organic farm. To my surprise, I saw that She was growing vegetables INSIDE the house. She had a garden room inside the house and she is using Hydroponics to grow vegetables.

Hydroponics is a technique for growing plants without the use of soil. Plants grow in styro pots with their roots under water. The water is actually a nutrient solution of organic substances which is circulated by commercial pumps. Of course this is a capital intensive type of gardening but it is also highly productive.

Because I was more interested with her garden than with her products she invited me over! I am on my way now to her house to try out hydroponics. I am so excited

I have always preferred to do things manually than relying on machines and technology to do it for us.

Take riding cabs, for example. In my office, certain employees have this privilege called “tax shields” where we present receipts of certain categories and we get a chance to have a certain amount from these receipts deducted from the amount taken by the income tax.

The categories that were assigned to me were transportation and communication so naturally, I had to collect receipts from cab fares and purchases from gasoline and telephone companies. Everytime I hail a cab and get dropped off somewhere, I now ask them to give me a receipt.

Most of the cabs nowadays have a receipt printer incorporated with their meters, and more often than not, when I ask for receipts, they tell me that their printer is out of ink.

This is precisely why I prefer doing things manually. They could have written me a receipt instead, you know? I’m starting to think that maybe technology isn’t really always that helpful for us.

Have you ever heard of massive multiplayer online role playing games?

I have. I was once addicted to these types of games. The specific game that I spent about ten years of my life playing was Ragnarok. I didn’t play just for the sake of leveling up and getting a lot of gold. I played because I liked the thought of interacting with other people from across the globe, getting to know them and being able to do something with them.
At one point I played too much that I mistook Gold for Cash. My parents began to worry. At first they thought it was just a phase, but I started to ignore the rest of the world and I opted to stay in the house instead of socializing with my friends like any other normal girl would do.
Thanks to that game, I started earning a lot of money and I improved my programming skills. You see, games aren’t too bad if you learn to control yourself.

My brother recently bought a new home system so he could watch movies in high definition and surround sound, and it made me a little jealous.

He gave his old sound system for us to use in the living room, but for me it simply isn’t enough. I blame man’s natural instinct of never being content! Haha! Just kidding, but really, I think that what our sound system needs would be Energy speakers for bookshelf.

With that I could watch all the Lord of the Rings movies, and then follow that marathon with a Harry Potter movie marathon. I’d invite all my friends to enjoy the awesomeness that is the surround sound and the magnificent television screen.

My little sister is currently in college and apparently custom laptops are the latest trend. Since she is under a BS Computer Science curriculum, naturally, most of them have laptops or family computers of their own, and with them having to bring their laptops to their laboratory classes most of the time, it’s quite hard to determine which person owns a certain laptop if more than one of them has the same model.

My sister made me come with her while she looked for skins and laptop bags, and I can say the designs are quite amusing. I ended up buying a purple skin and a matching bag myself!

I like adding a little touch of personality to my own things. It kind of expresses who I am and what I like in life, not to mention it makes everything even just a little prettier! Who wouldn’t want that?!

It seems like wherever I go, all I see are people listening to their ipods, playing games and not minding each other.

I find it scary. We might even reach a point where we end up ignoring each other and just minding our own business, using apps and all that.

But that’s probably just me being paranoid. I’d be a hypocrite if I said I hate ipods and we shouldn’t ever use them, because I pretty much can’t live without mine! It has pretty much consumed my life, and I am entirely dependent on it now. Haha!

Most of my schedules are there, and I have a lot of to do lists stored on it. It’s just convenient since it’s portable and you can do a lot of things with it, not to mention the very reasonable price and sleek interface!

What kind of ipod do you have and what do you want to have? Share it with us!

Ever since the dawn of laptops came into existence, most of our personal computers at home started getting ignored for the mobility that laptops offer.

I could very much vouch for this fact, as our family computer started deteriorating, and its power supplies have slowly given up and died. Now all I could actually think of is putting it back to life and upgrading most of its components so it could perform even better than my current laptop.

I’ve long since been fond of big screens, and I still haven’t gotten quite used to the small keyboard and touch pad that my laptop uses, so I still have this need to buy bigger USB keyboards and an USB mouse, as well.

What specs do your personal computers have?