Pattern drawing + a lazy Saturday

Something drawn about 2, 3 months ago. ^

Not sure if its been posted already but got the feeling I didn't yet.

Nothing better than sleeping in on a Saturday morning.

Especially since I couldn't sleep until 2am yesterday --;

Ooooh, and I got a glimpse of a show on NHK ('Living Well At 100') and heard Puffy's 「これが私の生きる道」 (Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi) play on start and end clips!

I'm a huge fan of Puffy. ★ ★ ★

From what was said in the show, its pretty interesting, too. 100+year-old residents really do know how to live :D Very amusing and unique.

Might draw later.

But gotta go catch that darn cat again. (Very hyper atm.)

I [had] a dream(???)

No, wait, sorry, rephrase that; 'nightmare'.

It was... supremely terrible. Ended up a really anxious since then...

Very hard to describe, but it was genuinely just horrible. Everything seemed decrepit and spooky all alone and it seemed cold, though this was during sleep. Something about a dead guy's abandoned upstairs apartment and exploring it in silence... buh that's all I remember ):

Woke up and was sweaty instead. AC was turned off, turned out. Really bizarre :\

In other news.

...

Rainy season continues on 'till who knows when.

It's actually quite lovely as a break from constant daytime heat~ =)

'cause without it, Brunei may as well become a new desert (hahaha!). (But I guess it'd be cool to live in a desert for a little change, y'know?)

Finished Memoirs of a Geisha a week or so ago, too. Splendid ending. :'D

Might spend weekend digging out the movie and watching it. :p

What a boring post.

Check the next one for picture scans. Currently drawing neat stuff atm :D

DVD stuck in Macbook? I gots tips to help! :D

Okay, so this was a pretty new (and infuriating :\) experience for my Mac's [super] hard drive. :s

You know, you just happen to watch a new DVD or burn/listen to a CD and it just won't spit it out when you've tried to push 'eject' at least 20 times [in a row].

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFU-

Well, no fear! I have some help for that:

Tip 1: reboot, click.

Reboot your Macbook. As soon as you hear the opening chime, click straight away (works for both trackpads and USB mice). This should force-eject the CD.

Tip 2: 'drutil tray eject'.

If that fails, try going to 'Applications' -> 'Utilities' -> 'Terminal'.

Then type in drutil tray eject and press enter; from here it should try to force-eject. (You can try as much as you like; it shouldn't stress the Macbook.)

Tip 3: card jam

Try to reach for a thin-thick card of some sort (credit cards work best, but since I don't own one, I just took a bookmark instead). Press the 'eject' button, and just jam it in there until you feel it against the CD, and try to drag it out.

Tip 4: tilt, card-jam

This worked for me.~ Pick up the laptop and tilt it at a 90-degree angle, then shove in a piece of card during 'eject' until the force lets the CD drop out a bit, and pull it out the best you can. This should work if the above don't.

I don't know what else there is to it; if all else fails, then try to search for more on Google or take it to a repair shop. :s

If shoving in with a piece of card, don't do it forcefully, since this might just wind up in scratching the CD (not good). Fortunately, my DVD doesn't seem to be scratched badly after more than 30 tries :'3

Strange for a post of mine, I know, but I felt like it, since I hear more people complain about this recently. e.e;

4-day term break = bs.

Indeed.

Including CNY, that's just plain unfair :\

Well, at least the next half of term's gonna end a day after my birthday (YYY)

Also continuing 'Memoirs of a Geisha'.

Really getting to the peaks of the story~

After that I think I'll read 1984 again, then review.

Nothing much else...

Except, I've been messing with ants and bugs recently.

I like to group them up and feed sugar cubes to them with tweezers.

It's so... amusing c':