Yes, I’m happy right now since my monitor has came. Now I have a brighter views. Also I can use a higher resolutions such as 1280×1024 pixels. That’s awesome. Of course it will increase my creativity.
But I have a little problem about the view. I feel that the pictures isn’t sharp. There’s a little blurred on the outline. I don’t know whether I’m not adjust it correctly or it’s just my feeling because I get used a dark screen before. The fonts don’t look good on my eyes. I already adjust the monitor by its software, MagicBright. It’s only correct the brightness and other color profiles. Not the image itself.
So I just one problem left. My productivity. The CPU still hunger for resources. Make a brochure takes 3 hours or so. Imagine that :). I’m thinking to expand the memory. Now I have 256 Mb of SDRAM. I should get 512 Mb minimum. If could, I would expand it to 1 gig. That’s not the best solution though. BUt it’s the cheapest solution at the moment :D. Buy a new CPU will cost me much, either it’s a Pentium or AMD. Did I hear someone said, buy a Mac? :).
I just received some projects lately. Most of them are print design job. An IT solutions company needs to revamp their corporate communications, including logo, business stationary, brochure, x-banner, folder, and a cd software packaging. Another company I work for, need a corporate communications. This task including logo and business stationary. The third company needs to have a new company profile and a website. Not to mention bunch of projects are waiting.
I’m really excited with these things, since I only did very few project in graphic design. These tasks will give me opportunity to explore my print design concept. But I have small problems here, especially on the equipments. I don’t have a proper PC monitor. My one and only monitor is 15″ unknown monitor and it’s horrible, it doesn’t show a fit color on the screen. It’s darker than it should be. What a cloudy monitor :D. It’s 5 years old monitor, so what do you expect.
Another one is its CPU. I feel it’s very slow when I’m deal with a print design work. I suppose AMD Duron 700 can’t handle those tasks anymore. Opening Photoshop and Freehand at the same time will eat the resource, so darn fast.
So I’m considering to buy a new monitor, upgrading my RAM, and/or buy a new weapon. For the monitor I think I will choose an LCD monitor. 17″ is enough. For the new weapon…I don’t know..if someone offers me a second hand of PowerMac or Powerbook, I will pick it.
Meanwhile I should stick to my “best friend”, my lovely PC. Always by my side for the last 5 years.
Update:
I just brought a 17′ Samsung LCD monitor, SyncMaster 710v. It’s too good to ignore, a refurbished monitor for only IDR 1.7 million. I took it because it’s good price and I need it so bad. Now I have a brighter and wider views. I almost forget what a beautiful colors in here :).
Pheew…thank God, finally I finished one project. I really in a low motivation. Perharps too much project with tight deadlines. I read Jason’s post about productivity tip and I think it’s right. I really have so many things to do lately and I don’t know how to finish it. I feel like I want to finish all at the same time. So thank you Jason for the great tip. Finally one project is done. Another projects are waiting.
Right now I’m in the same situation as Matt in his post, too much work and forget when the last time I’m entertaining myself. I should take a break for a while. Enjoy life with movies, dvd, gaming, read books, as long I’m not touching my works.
Here are the things came into my mind:
Those are my options. Now it’s time to choose.
Do you have the biggest dream in your mind and you feel like you can give anything to reach it? I think everyone has their own biggest dream. I have one. My dream was started when I was in high school. It’s almost impossible to get it. Only with a help from God then I can do that. I mean with my financial condition it’s very hard to make it real :D. Of course if I have a lot of money that should be no problem and that wouldn’t be my biggest dream.
But today I have a feeling that my biggest dream will come true. I’m on the way to realize it. Of course the number one rule is keep on praying, and that the thing I will do :). So after hear the news I feel so excited and can’t hardly wait for it. That feeling in other way make me work faster than before. It’s just like someone has hit my “restart” button :D. Can you imagine that you have a dream and you’ll find out that it will happens? That’s what I feel right now.
I’m sure this is the best way to resolve all my personal problems that I carry at my shoulders for years. So thank you Sirs and Madam for giving me the opportunity.
Anyway, what’s the dream you’ve talking about? Uhm..I’ll tell you when the time is right :).
I just closed my previous blog at Antiklimaks. Like I said, it’s hard for me focusing on many things at the same time in this situation. I need to centralize all the things in one place. So here it is, my new website has arrived and I hope all of you may enjoy visiting this place.
p.s.
The portfolio section is in progress. I should choose few from lot of my portfolio files. I’ll post only selected works. Thank ou for your patience.