I am Danny Foo

Spring cleaning my workstation

Okay. Not wasting my “company break” I’ve been filling my time with some wedding stuff and other things I needed to get off my to do list. One of it was to spring clean my workstation so I did it today.

And trust me, when you’ve not done it for awhile it can get rather dusty in there. All the black dust balls occupying the heatsink of your hard working coolers.

So I spent a good amount of time removing the parts of my computer from the processor to the hard disks and case fans. Then toothbrush-ing the fans, wiping them down and re-applying a new layer of thermal compound to my processor.

Once that was done, my computer looked much better internally and it felt much better. I could finally feel some airflow with my bare hands. Plus, temperatures look to be more stabilized now. Hooray!

But I didn’t end there for today.

I’ve been meaning to properly clean my old Logitech keyboard ever since I replaced it with the Razer Black Widow which I won at a press event. I bought the Logitech keyboard in 2005 and it was still in good condition until now. Just a little dirty.

I’ve tried using cleaners like Gif and I highly do not recommend it because it’s too strong – it eats away the keyboard letters. Instead, I used soap water this time. Only thing I did different is plucked out a key at a time to thoroughly clean it – top and sides.

I can’t say if you can pluck for all keyboards and I dare not try it on my Black Widow. Though speaking from this experience, plucking and cleaning key by key was very effective.

I just realized my meaning of life savings

Start saving. That’s the #1 advice I have for you. Gentleman or Lady, it doesn’t matter.

What matters is the dollars and cents. Heck, even if you were to elope, you’re still going to have to end up using money to do it. So start saving.

Sad as it sounds, I’m in my late 20s and it’s now only I realize why they call it; life savings. It’s savings for everything to do with your life – health, education, pleasure, weddings, family, kids, investment and retirement. Literally, everything.

Because I didn’t stick to a plan to save, I’m actually stressed out now with a few milestones in my life. I can catch up to what I want but I won’t be able to catch up to it fast enough. Hence, I’ll always be trailing behind it now unless I’ve a windfall of a savings.

So start early. Start saving today – I’m only in my late 20s and realizing the importance. There’s no such thing as starting too early. The next step is teaching our children to understand the meaning of a life savings and why they’ve to start doing it too. Then when they’re more matured, handing over your life savings plan you had for them.

Sigh. I feel really disappointed with myself. I hope you do the right thing and don’t disappoint yourself too. And most importantly, your continuity of your generations.

My memorable April Fools

Y’know what everyone. Blogging has been always a part of me. It’s been an extension of my thoughts. However, like growing up, we come to a crossroad in our life to decide what we would want to do now. I even play less computer games now with other activities occupying my daily time, like exercise, reading and work. I’ve also been blogging less frequently with less spark to ignite my burning desire to write about my day. It’s just come to that time to bid adieu. Thank you…

By the way, April Fools Day. And I’m here to stay, still. 😉

So my still memorable prank was back in primary school. I was a prefect back then and call it abusing my power, but I guess you can’t help from being a kid on this day. What I did was what 1 of my friends did to me.

I told another friend (not a prefect) that the disciplinary teacher was looking for him. Being a prefect, he believed me. So I guess he was quite pissed off when he got back and found out it was actually an April Fools joke. :p

One of the more worst pranks my friends have pulled off though is putting pieces from a ping pong ball into a small foil wrap, light it and let it smoke. The smell was horrendous. This was my first encounter with what was known as the stink bomb.

Ah, those were the days of being a kid without sense of responsibility to your actions. Lol.

The day ruined

Ever had one of those mornings where something happens, you don’t think too much of it and for an unknown reason, it turns out to be not a good day. Well, mine oddly started with a ballpoint pen snapping its hook piece which I’ve amended before. And I thought nothing of it since it was broken and glued it back before.

Then came my morning business meeting with a client. I’m not going to reveal or talk a lot about this matter to maintain a level of professionalism. However, what I would say is my day was ruined from that meeting onwards.

It was so bad, I tweeted that I felt like punching something and breaking my arm. Though I guess I’m lucky to have a friend always nearby – like chewak. Thanks for trying to turn the scenario around.

My whole being was so stressed from this morning that I could’ve just broken down. Even when I got home, I didn’t have any appetite. I just ate Maggi mee for the sake of knowing I’ll need to eat.

Then as much as I wanted to join Ariel for dinner with her colleagues, I couldn’t lose this feeling of being suffocated by this darkness. I felt like even if I forced myself to go, I’d be such a killjoy without much emotion. So I just told her, I wanted to be alone for awhile.

Though I did manage to get some work done and the darkness isn’t as heavy anymore, I still feel a pressure on my chest.

It was really a day ruined. FML.

The power of the word

Last night as I laid in bed about to fall asleep, a thought came to mind for a blogpost. I was thinking how powerful a word can be used in different ways to communicate its meaning in a sentence.

Take for example this phrase, which I use quite commonly now.

Creative spaced out Malaysian

If we broke it down into parts, I’m saying that I’m a creative (designer) Malaysian who daydreams. It would mean the same if I were to phrase it this way too.

Creatively spaced out Malaysian

Except, this phrase could also mean I’m a Malaysian who daydreams in a creative manner.

Now what about if I phrased it this way.

Spaced out creative Malaysian

This doesn’t say I’m a designer. Just a creative Malaysian who’s spaced out. In this context, I could also be using “spaced out” to represent “awesome”.

So this is just another spaced out thought I had before falling into dreamland. And my realization of how powerful a word can be depending how we choose to use it.