Bring It On (A New PC, I Mean) and Other Ramblings

It is the new year, since last week actually. And how have things been for me so far?

Not bad, to be honest. Not bad.

There are still things that are shaky going on, career-wise. I still don't know if I will still have a job this coming year or if I will also be the victim of the global economic crisis and get retrenched. But since no news is (sorta) good news, then I guess everything's gravy.

That doesn't mean that I don't have any backup plans. Or backups anyway. I must acquire a portale storage device of huge proportions - a 300gb portable hard drive. My PC is just waiting it's replacement, and right now I am blogging on my mother's old PowerBook. I need to back-up my work files, mp3s, and other important stuff from my old PC (and maybe my office PC) so that in the event that the new PC arrives, I will have 2 working PCs.

But wait, you're thinking, "How can you have 2 working PCs when you just implied that your current PC is no longer reliable? (Which it is... it is NOT reliable)" Well I still have my very 1st P4 PC somewhere in the house. I will cannibalize it for it's mobo and try to have my current PC's RAM, video card, power supply, DVD-writer, and hard drives connected to that one so I can have one relatively slow PC and a newer, faster one. The old PC I will most likely either give away to my relatives in the province who can use it for clerical duties, or I will give it to someone else. Or I can keep it, buy myself a switcher, and use 2 PCs using only one monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Whatever.

I've decided to go AMD Phenom X4. It is about 2/3 cheaper than a Pentium of the same speed. Plus I'm not too keen on getting Pentiums anymore since I didn't really get to use my old PC for income generating purposes. Thus defeating the need for getting expensive hardware. If I do find a way to make some extra moolah using my new PC at least I'll recoup my expenses sooner. If I don't, at least I didn't spend that much.

So that's it. Why did I post this? Because I want to be more active with my blog. I'm considering being a bit more open to the blog again, maybe with work. But then I don't want to sound like I'm a bitch about the stuff going on at work.

All I can say is that I miss post-prod TVC work. I guess I just needed a break from it from before, and a one year sabbatical seems just right.

Don't get me wrong, gaming is great and all. But I am just not impressed with the gaming industry in the Philippines. Maybe if I was working in the US or Canada for a major game company I'd be enjoying myself a lot more. But gaming here isn't what I expected.

For one thing we've been working on low-poly models. Mostly for the Nintendo DS. Nothing wrong with that, I have learned new things. But the excitement and the challenges I got used to doing before when I used to make TVCs just aren't here in gaming. I don't know why.

I still get challenged in gaming, but it's just not the same feel as with TVCs. It's just totally different.

But I'm still glad for everything that I have experienced. Because they all helped me out one way or another.

That's enough of that ramble.

Out.