Homecoming

After the flight delay for 2 hours, constant turbulence in the flight for 8 hours, and waiting for luggage for 45 minutes, the 11 hour ordeal is finally over.

The day of the flight, fearing that I might oversleep, I set up alarms in my clock, watch and 6 alarms in my phone. Fortunately I was awake before the alarm sounded even when I don't have enough sleep.

Gotta enjoy all the foods and the accompany of the animals!

Holiday times.. For a 22 year old without life

It has been awhile since my last post.
Had been playing tons of games since I got acquainted with Steam recently.
I started to use Steam since I discovered that my Alienware comes with a special offer where it gets Portal for free. Since then I start buying games from Steam and now I have about 10 games in it. Note that I started my steam account only 3 months ago.

Games I like and played the most include Fallout New Vegas and CoD Black Ops zombie mode. Glad that I got those 2 games.

ZenniOpticals new site, new feature and discounts.

ZenniOpticals is an online store that sells prescribed eyeglasses. 

ZenniOptical had just renovated their site and added a new feature, allowing people to virtual try-on frames. 

Currently the site is having a discount on the frames, going down from $8 to $6.95

Get a discount prescipted eyeglasses before the discount ran out!

This post is sponsored by ZenniOptical, the #1 online eyeglasses store and offering a very high quality eyeglasses on line at truly unheard of affordable prices.

Final Fantasy XIV Collector's Edition

I bought my Final Fantasy XIV Collector Edition for PC from www.game.com.au and it arrives today afternoon.

Here are some photos of the contents included in the package.

The box of FF XIV with an illustration, strangely familiar, could be related to some FF character in the past but I am not sure of it.

The side of the box, stating the contents included in the package, including a map of Eorzea, a flask, and a security token.

Things included in the package, including the game itself, a notebook with various illustration of beast and characters in it, the flask inside the white box, a security token, and the map of Eorzea.

The flask with a leather handle with "Final Fantasy XIV" embedded on it. Note that the cover of the flask pops right out instead of twisting it open.

The map of Eorzea imprinted on a piece of cloth. Hardcore FF fans might pin them up on their wall beside their PC, but I could not bear to damage the cloth by pinning it and kept it in the box.


Currently FF XIV still uses p2p for game updates, which is unsuitable for some people living on campus or with restricted p2p access. But I found a good website hosting the updates required for the game with direct download in tehkrizz.

Collector edition buyers will also receive an onion helm which reduces the time of sickness induced when KOed. Allowing players to resume their intensive journey after 1.30 minute instead of 5 minutes.

Alienware M17x captured!

My Alienware M17x has arrived this 2 hours ago and I snapped photos of the unboxing.
I ordered a 17 inch laptop bag and an external monitor too. It was a hassle to get all 3 boxes to my dorm as the box containing the laptop is heavy enough by itself. I spent about 20 minutes just to take all three boxes to my dorm.


3 large boxes, containing my  Dell Monitor, Alienware M17x, and Alienware laptop bag.


Grand opening


Alien head


Box containing accessories


Cloth covering laptop


Box containing accesories


Opening of accessory box


All accessories provided. Containing an Alienware cap, Alienware mouse pad (Hard), Leather manual, power cables, and installation disks.


Another angle


Another angle


Laptop covered in cloth



Removed safety foam


Plastic protector protecting from scratches


Removed plastic sheet


Bottom of the laptop, Impressed by the vents.


Alienware nameplate, customization not available for production outside US. What a shame.


Front of the laptop


Left side. Not many review mention the existence of the Kensington lock.


Behind, only have power socket.


Right side


Opened laptop


Other angle


Keyboard, unlighted


Keyboard again.







Lighted, bright condition


Lighted, dark condition


Lighted, dark condition, angle 2

Windows Experience Index 7.2

This first program I installed is Microsoft Words 2007, LoL.

Yet to play any game using this laptop though.