Hi guys, been MIA for a few days. Been trying to get my hands on a copy of JoBros' debut album, It's About Time. Ridiculous prices on eBay, but I highly doubt I'll find it anywhere else (I have been searching for the last few days).


They didn't sell very many when it was released, so their label dropped them and Hollywood Records/Disney picked them up, and they became a huge success. Now it's like the highest in demand CD cos there were only 50,000 released, and since they're no longer with the label, are unlikely to be re-released.

Pooh.

Anyone here who doesn't want their's anymore and willing to sell at reasonable price - I'm looking!

Anyways, my brother turned 18 on Sunday. We went bowling again, and this time, I managed to control the ball a lot better, and came second in both games. Same points both games, but double my personal best prior to Sunday night. We got him an iPod Classic. I paid the exact same price for my sister's on her 25th, and it only had a quarter of the space this one does! I feel so ripped off!

Now back to my JB searching.....

Today is eDay in New Zealand. Mum's been wanting to get rid of all the computers we've accumulated over the years (mostly ones dad brings home from work) for a while, but most places charge. Two years ago, Dell trialled a computer collection day where people could drop off their old computers for free. It was such a success that they made it an annual event. Unfortunately, I've always learnt about the collections day after the collection day.

Anyways, a few months ago I decided to find out when the next collection date was and discovered it wasn't too far off, so we were prepared this time. Well, almost.

A little after I bought my external hard drive, I wanted to see if I could get the hard drive out of our last computer because there was still some pretty recent data in there. So I managed to get my hands on a disassembly manual and an enclosure and made the old hard drive into another external one.

After I told my mum about eDay, we decided to get the hard drives out of our computers before getting rid of them, in case there was any confidential data on there.

I removed the hard drives from the computers that were placed in the laundry on Sunday, but last night, mum brought down some more from our storage spaces upstairs. This morning she asked me to remove their hard drives. I had a bit of trouble with an even older home computer - I couldn't find the hard drive. Someone must have removed it ages ago. Meh, can't have been much on there anyway, it was only 2GB. Imagine that. When 40GB computers came out, we were still using a 2GB computer. Mum was talking on the phone to my uncle, who'd just bought a new computer, and she asked him how big his computer was, which was 40GB, and when we told my mum that our's was 2GB, she was like "2GB?!!", so we bought a new one, the one which now serves as an external hard drive.

Anyways, guess how many computers we took down to eDay? Eight. All of which I had to dismantle to get their hard drives out. Haha, the computer which already had the hard drive removed we sorta mutilated trying to get the CD drive removed (they use the same cables, so I thought - since I couldn't find a hard drive -  that it must have been a 2-in-1, til I dismantled the next computer and found that the CD drive used the same cables as the hard drive) because I didn't realise there were screws on the other side!

Anyways, we now have six hard drives which we don't even know what to do with. Mum's thinking of dunking them in water in order to destroy all the data on there. I guess I could buy some cables, connect it to our computer and reformat the hard drives to clear them, but that would cost money and who knows what it could do to our current computer, with unknown sources connected up to it. So I'll let mum get rid of them. They're all probably around 2-4GB anyway, no use would come out of them.

What do you think is the best way to destroy hard drives which might still have data on them?

I need your help!

I really, really want one of these, but can't find any for sale online. Anyone in Asia able to find one in a store?

Well, now that's just not fair. You're just gonna keep coming up with different colours til it becomes a collection, aren't ya?

No matter how many times you tell them that only official artists can get them, people will always keep asking for the white with black hat. Official artists only. I like that idea. Makes it exclusive, special. But it seems someone who's not an artist also got one. Not fair.

I finally put Audiotraffic's album on yesterday. I played the first two songs way back when I bought it, but never really had the chance to play the rest of the songs. I think I stopped at the third to last song though, cos had to get ready for Nathan King.

Anyone heard of Kiwi band Zed? Well, I saw Nathan King had his own solo album, and asked my siblings if they knew he had gone solo, and my brother said "yes, he's playing at my church on Sunday." Way to go, bro, keep it from us then, why don't you? So my younger sister and I decided to go see Nathan King at their night service (we were originally going to go in the morning service, but we hosted a party Saturday night, and it was daylight savings, so neither of us got enough sleep). On our way there, I remembered that I'd left my camera battery in its charger. Dammit! And guess what? We had third row, bang smack in the middle, right in front of Nathan seats. Those would have been some nice photos. I had to take them on my phone instead. Dammit, dammit, dammit! Anyways, I'll edit this blog and post them up when I get home, if I remember.

Nathan offered his album for cheaper than the stores, and he was there to sign, so both my sister and I got one (I paid for both though). And I grabbed a poster. Oh yeah.


Remember how the buses were gonna be off the road until further notice? I think the council stepped in, cos they were back on the roads after only one full day off. At least, I heard it was the council.

And finally, there had been a huge six-month long build up for the movie Camp Rock, which starred the Jonas Brothers, who I mentioned before I had come to like after seeing them on Disney Channel a few times. Good and bad came from the movie.

The good:

1. I loved Kevin's character. He had me at "ooh, can you make me a birdhouse?"

2. The main songs (i.e. Demi's character's "This is Me", and Joe's character's "Gotta find you", which they blended for the end when Joe's character finds "the girl with the voice.") And also the song the Jonas Brothers play, "Play my music".

3. Storyline was okay.

The bad:

1. Basically, Nick and Kevin Jonas were hardly in it. The scenes that you see them in during the trailer are basically all their scenes, minus, like, one.

2. Joe looked rather stupid in the "Start the Party" scene. Both thanks to his tight, white pants, and thanks to the dance moves, which worked great when the whole group did them, but made him look stupid when doing them on his own.

Still, I did enjoy the movie, and have watched it twice already. I can't compare it to HSM, cos I'm kinda sick of HSM. Although, I will agree that the music and dance side of things was probably better in HSM.


So, yeah, about the party on Saturday. As per usual, some members turned up at lunchtime for the usual mahjong session and played right to dinner time. At dinner time, some new people arrived. Turned out to be the parents of family friends I haven't seen in years. I haven't seen this friend since we were kids, so it was kinda sudden to see her parents (who remembered it was my birthday around this time too! Imagine not seeing people for over a decade and still remembering their birthdays! I wish I had a memory like that!) Unfortunately, my friend didn't join them on their trip to Wellington. I actually initially thought it was another person's parents, because I knew that this person, who'd left for HK when she was one, had come over to study.

Anyways, so that's my weekend. How was yours?