Archive for December, 2009
Hunting For A New Laptop
I got a call from my boss yesterday, she asked me to find a new laptop for me. She said my five-year-old HP was already out of date and it was time to buy a new one. She let me choose my own laptop as usual as she trusts my choices. However, she limited the budget at maximum USD 1,100. Well, based on personal experience, my choice will be another HP laptop because so far I never get trouble with their products.
I was so excited hearing her call, though I love my current laptop, but my boss was right it’s getting out of date. My current laptop is an HP (I forget the type) with Pentium 4 processor and 512 Mb DDR. She’s like a soul mate to me for the last five years, so it’s gonna be hard to not seeing her on my desk when I’m coming back to the office after my maternity leave next month!
I’ll start hunting during the weekend 
Time To Decorate The House
Two weeks before Christmas, we finally started to decorate the house. It’s a little bit late because we’ve been busy preparing for my son’s Christmas event at school this Saturday. He will dance and sing that day and needs new clothes, shoes, also a Santa’s hat. We already bought them all during weekend. I also took times to see his rehearsals yesterday and seemed he did fine. This is going to be his first Christmas performance at school so I try to support him whenever I can.
Anyway, for our house Christmas decoration we decided to focus on the baby as we believe he will still become the center of anyone’s attention who come to our house during Christmas holiday. So we’re not going to decorate the whole house, only a few spots where we always put our baby, like the baby’s room, dining room and a corner in our living room. It will save our energy and money too compare to decorate the whole house.
There will be a lot of stuff toys like in the picture as we already bought some. And when I told our cousins that we’re looking for Christmas stuff toys for the baby, they promised to bring some of theirs for him. It will be fun to see the baby surrounded by those little cute toys
Rain’s Jakarta Concert
It was one big event for Korean drama/celebrity lovers in Jakarta. Rain, the top Korean hip hop singer, came to Jakarta on his Asia Tour and held a concert last Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at JITEC Mangga Dua.
I have to admit I’m a big fan of him, fell in love with him since his drama series “Full House” few years back. Though I don’t follow Korean drama religiously as I used to, I still occasionally buy his DVD movies or CD album. Feel like teenagers again, lol.
I was really tempted to go to the concert, it must be fun to join the clouds, but decided not to. Couldn’t leave my baby. Hopefully there will be a DVD of his concert in Jakarta soon 
Anyway, here’s a clip from his concert last Thursday.
I Found The Laptop I Want!
As I mentioned in previous post I was asked to look for a new laptop for my office work. Since I haven’t followed the latest development in computer technology for quite awhile, I spent almost two days searching on the net to get information about the latest laptop. I also asked my brother and his IT geek friends’ opinions, and called my computer distributors to find out about their stocks and prices. Finally, this morning I emailed my purchase request to the office. I gave them two choices of laptop.
Take a look at her, isn’t she a beauty?
HP Pavilion dv4-1532TX comes in two color choices espresso black and moonlight white. I chose the white one. It’s a Core2 Duo laptop with 3GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVD±RW, NIC, WiFi, Bluetooth, Fingerprint, VGA NVIDIA GeForce G105M 512MB, Camera, 14.1″ WXGA, and genuine Win7 Home Premium.
The distributor’s quote was US$ 1,160 or US$60 higher than the company’s US$ 1,100 budget, but I’m sure our purchasing department can handle this. That was their first quote anyway so we still can bargain. Below is its detail specifications.
There’s no color choice in this series, all come in black. HP Pavilion dm3-1028TX is claimed to have stamina to go all day! It is powered by Intel’s ultra-low-voltage with Core2 Duo SP9300, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, NIC, WiFi, Bluetooth, VGA NVIDIA GeForce G105M 512MB, Camera, 13.3″ WXGA, External DVD±RW, Win7 Home Premium.
Its dimension is only 32.6 x 3.18 x 23 cm and weight 1.91 kg. Much smaller and lighter than the dv4t series which is good for me! However naturally its display size is also smaller which only 13.3″ compare to dv4t series that has 14.1″ screen.
The distributor’s quote for this model was US$ $1,060 so it’s still under the company’s US$ 1,100 budget. Here’s its detail specifications.
There! I’ve done my job looking for a new laptop. Now it’s up to the company which one they are going to buy. Whatever their choice is I will not be able to use it until I come back to work next month. Still three weeks left to enjoy my leave