My baby's here!

Am sooooo tired. But have finally gotten my baby!!! At 8pm tonight. I love the way it handles. Very, very happy! No regrets getting the manual transmission instead of auto :)))

I have the POWERRRRRR

"You have to let go of your megalomania."

You see, I already had a bit of my music organised into nice little folders on my hard drive.

THEN CAME iTUNES.

Omg it's all jumbled up now! was my first thought upon importing the songs to iTunes.

"iTunes sorts your music on your hard drive by artist. For it to be effective, you've got to let it do what it was designed to do," another friend advised.

"But I want it to be sorted by genre!" I protested. I mean, to me the genre is more important coz you have jazzy moods, rap moods, instrumental moods, pop ballad moods... you know what I mean.

"Sort them into playlists on iTunes."

"But I want to also be able to find them on my hard drive!"

"You can't have both!"

That's where the "megalomania" comment came in... but but but it's MY music! How can puny iTunes prevent me from organising it the way I want! *stomps foot, crosses arms, sticks nose in the air and pouts*

Tales from an iTunes n00b

In my zeal to organise all my music on iTunes, I am on a quest to rip every single CD I own.

So far I've done 45 and I estimate I still have about maybe 100 to go.

Mr TDH unwittingly activated my OCD tendencies -- he showed me how, on his iPhone, the album's cover picture appears on screen when he plays a song from that album... so now I'm also fixated on putting in all the album artwork into iTunes -_-"

Essential element

Me: A piano would never fit in this apartment.

Housemate: Of course it could. If you took away the bookshelves...

Me: (horrified) How can you have a house without bookshelves?!

Surprise!

I had set myself a goal to update this blog every day but it's clearly not happening. *sigh*

At the moment I'm trying to organise all my music on iTunes, which I've never used before. Traditionally I just use the VLC media player to play music & videos, since it copes well with a variety of formats, including .flv videos.

But I'm thinking of getting either an iPhone or iPod Touch eventually so it seemed like a good idea to start familiarising myself with iTunes. In the process I'm discovering some music I didn't know I had, and some that have me wondering, How on earth did that get on my hard drive? -- because I wouldn't ever listen to that -_-"

Wise earworms

I wonder if it is possible for something that is generally good to be not so good for you.

Today I read a lady's tale of going from being a homeowner to a renter, and in my head I heard my father's voice: "Instead of helping other people to pay their mortgages, you could be paying off your own mortgage and then in the end you'd have something to show for it." There's unarguable wisdom in that, the kind of logic that no amount of argument can defeat.

And my own practical mind wondered: "But what about when you're old and you can't afford to pay rent anymore because you don't have a job?" I don't live in America; the state won't help me. I don't have children that I might be able to stay with in future... although I do have a brother. I guess he's my contingency plan. *grins*

But as this lady said, owning a home is not just about paying the mortgage, it's also about "upkeep, manicuring and constant vigilance over disaster". Besides, I've never been very comfortable with the idea that I'll have to go into debt for 30 years just to own a home. I'm actually pretty happy renting. But then my dad's words of wisdom keep circling in my head...

Now, that's talent!

One of my Twitter contacts linked to this video. I cannot imagine how the artist did that! Painting on a surface where you can see what you're doing is hard enough, let alone painting on yourself where you can't really see what's happening... and the awkward angle of holding the brush... good grief!

Another friend posted about a different piece of art yesterday. Am getting the itch to create...