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I was actually intending to study last night, but I ended up spending most of my time exploring this amazing micro-blogging site called Plurk – where you let other people know what you’re doing, what you’re thinking/feeling, what you want to share, etc! (Sorta like those Facebook statuses, MSN personal messages etc, but waaay better I assure you.) I didn’t expect myself to be so completely drawn and addicted to it – there’s something about updating your life and checking others’ Plurks and responses real-time that’s so mesmerising.

Really, I wouldn’t have joined it if my other friends didn’t decide to jump onto the bandwagon as well when I told them about it. So far I managed to rope in Jon, Jess, Sarah, Tomoko, and Suet (peer pressure wtf). I know I was one of them skeptics, “Why waste my time over this?” wtf but it’s so addictive and fun when your own close friends (who are literally scattered everywhere) join in too. It’s like Twitter, if you’ve used it before, but light years better!

Click to enlarge! This is the amazing Timeline where you can scroll from left to right to view your friends’ (or fans’) Plurks. Plus you can even customise your own theme, and my current one was found on some free Plurk template group in Flickr. Even so, by default, their own template’s pretty nifty-looking, where you can customise its colours very easily.

You can even Plurk in other languages, or select specifically who you want your individual Plurks to be viewed, and much more! (No I’m not getting paid by Plurk for this.) I’m even more amazed when my friends are online at night, when the Plurk pace really picks up like mad and I ended up keying responses every few minutes there wtf. I was also going online earlier this evening through WiFi on my phone just to update my Plurk while I was in college.

My life now has further meaning wtf.

I realise now that we’re all getting very connected via the Web – there’s Facebook, and now there’s Plurk. There’s also MSN and Skype and god knows what other amazing inventions people are churning out these days. I think there’s no way I’m going to lose touch with my friends and family this way at all.

So yeah – if I know you, do join Plurk today! That link is a referral link that will earn me some semi-useless Karma, and you’re by all means not obligated to do so. Else, it’s cool to just follow what I’m doing and be a ‘fan’.

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And yeah, my Business Finance test I sat for earlier today was alright – the theory questions were undoubtedly tough, but the calculation parts were almost a breeze.

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I’ve been feeling pretty happy lately. Contented, or satisfied, would be the better word. Just listening to my Across the Universe album does that, or Plurk, or brushing up my Chinese and Japanese.

I’ve also discovered yesterday that the new HTC Touch Pro is now available locally! Amazing specs, 2.8” touch screen, built-in GPS & keyboard, accelerometer, cool iPhone-like interface – they’re what I’m really looking for in a phone, and Touch Pro fits the bill perfectly. (It used to be Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1, but they took too long to release it.) The price isn’t cheap, of course, but sigh – I’m not the type that changes his/her handphone every few months, but my current phone is already 1 year and 9 months old, and this phone is perfect enough to make me want to switch.