Jan
12
My laptop is getting old and noisy. My favorite game World of Warcraft is really heavy and I can no longer play it at its highest resolution. I jumped on this opportunity and grabed a kick ass computer that was on sale for 1399 Euros (1699 before) and I had 114 Euros in gift cards to spend also.
My new baby is extremely fast and smooth and it is a real monster in terms of performance. I am loving my Asus-G10AC-FR37S:
CPU: Intel core i7-4770. 3,4 GHz. Turboboost up to 3,9 GHz – Hyper-Threading – Intel HD 4600
Graphic card: Nvidia GeForce GTX770, 2 Gb
RAM: 16 Gb
Hard drive: 2 To, SSD 256 Gb
CD-Drive: Bluray burner
Jan
1
tHe ImpEratOr!
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The last boss of this expansion of WoW died today at 1:30 am. A pick up group, whose’s leader was Urts, killed the bastard. I did not lead the fight, I just assembled the group of kick ass players who invited me again to play the game on Hard Mode. My ilvlel was only 645!
Jan
1
fIrSt 2015 poSt!
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Unlike previous years, I have no resolution list this year. I rarely succeeded in completing those anyways. I read the news this morning and 36 unlucky souls found death in Shangai. What a sad way of starting the year, dieing and brining pain to others at a happy event. Maybe life is not all about making things exceptional or extraordinary, it might just be normal and living a quiet and peaceful life. Mine is deadly boring and it has little chance of bringing anything unusual unless my PC or my screens exploded :).
I have my list of parts for my new PC. I would like to build a kick ass one. Sales start in January 7th here in France, maybe I will wait a bit and read more about the parts.
| Intel Core i7 Haswell 4790 (3,60GHz) | 300 |
| Genuine Intel CPU Cooler Heatsink & Fan *NEW* i3 i5 i7 LGA 1155 1156 1150 | 30 |
| ASUS H97-PLUS – SOCKET 1150 – CHIPSET H97 – ATX – CARTE MÈRE 22133519 | 119 |
| DDR3 16GB PC 1600 CL10 G.SKILL KIT 2X4GB 16GAO ARES | 160 |
| HARD DISK INTERNO 3.5″ SATA3 SEAGATE ST1000DM003 1000GB 1TB 7200 Rpm 64MB ! | 46 |
| Ultima tecnologia NVIDIA scheda video vga GFORCE GTX 970 OC MSI GAM 4GB MAXWELL | 379 |
| Asus 24x DVD+-RW SuperMulti Internal SATA – Black For PC DRW-24F1ST/BLK/G/AS | 23 |
| CIT VANQUISH RED LED ATX USB3 GAMING TOWER PC CASE INC 850W PSU & CLEAR WINDOW | 102 |
| ThermalTake Hamburg 530W 80+ Standard PSU APFC ATX2.3 Single Rail 12cm Fan, New | 153 |
| Total | 1312 |
Dec
29
cHrisTmas giFT!
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Here is my nice lamp filled with the light bulbs bought by my cousin, Helène. It looks all pretty at my window. I will use it even after the holidays as a decorative lamp at night. The winter will look much warmer in my studio :). From my desk, I can see the reflection of the light in the window and it creates a nice visual effect.
Dec
29
ChriStmas 2014!
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There comes the “good” times for both of our families. Lots of food and laughs and no big drama.
My sister, Anne, will have her second baby. I knew it already but I had to keep it secret until now. She bought a bigger car for her 2 cats, 1 dog and two babies!
My cousin, the other Anne, bought a nice house and will get married next year. She was happy and relaxed this year. You could feel it at her Birthday party. She checked everything, the bottle of champagne, the cakes and even the places around the table :).
Caroline and her boyfriend, Dung, received their first salaries as doctors. They bought two Iphones 6 for each of them to celebrate the event.
Things are quite nice for us the past few years and hopefully it will be even better in the futur.
Flickr photos: LINK
Dec
25
rElAxIng cHristmas!
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Our annual family reunion will be in Belgium like each year. Therefore Christmas’s Eve was quiet and relaxing as well as Christmas itself. I really do not care much about these days that seem to have a special meaning to the rest of the world. I will keep my money for the coming sales after Chirstmas. They are more interesting in terms of long time investment.
I went to the store on the 24 and there was an excess of smoked grilled ham on bones. The dude who was responsible for that stand gave to me 3 bones with lots of meat for almost free: 1 Euros for each. I had plenty of good grilled ham to eat over the holidays :).
Dec
17
vAcATions!
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yea Yea Yea!
I will go back to work on the 6th of January. It is even longer than my summer vacations!
Dec
13
bUsy GEeKing!
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I have been playing WoW all days and nights the last 2 weeks. I joined a guild and I had to catch up since I could not connect the first 2 weeks. I am almost at their level now but then I got hooked up into trading in the game. I generated lots of gold doing nothing else than buying and selling in the auction house. It is a very addictive game because it is so easy to make money from other’s work :). All I did was buying card and selling the trinket generated from these cards at a higher price!
In some ways, I helped the game making things cheaper and correcting any excess.
Dec
7
There were two cars parked for ever in front of the building and they blocked all other cars. I tried to remove them so that we recover two nice spots and therefore there will be less cars parked anywhere inside. After a month of hard work (calling the police every week), they were finally removed. Why did I do it? I noticed that chaos will spread if there is nothing done to fix it. It does not matter if it is someone’s chaos, it will eventually be my problem if they keep on parking their cars inside.
Nov
30
gReaT WeEk!
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Last week was fantastic! I slept, practiced some sport, played WoW and slept again!
I love these vacation at the end of the year and I will try to do the same thing next year.