Where the hell is Matt.

Rhetorical question. where the hell is Matt ? he is back in seattle. but the more important thing is not where is he now, but where has he been ????

Here’s a video:

here’s his website :
Where the hell is mike
this is an excellent website.

some of his quotes about
Singapore:

I’m struck with a small epiphany. The distinction between Singapore and its airport is a minor one. The entire country feels like one very large departure lounge; spotlessly clean, no distinct smells, climate-controlled, no one is poor, lots of shopping, no real culture, pleasant enough for the moment, but not a place you want to stay very long.

This makes sense. The city was founded to be a gateway. It is between places, and somehow immune to the realities of true placehood.

I was planning to buy the Sony DSC-P8. I found a guy who gave me a good price on it, but then started steering me over to the Canon Powershot 230. He made a mean pitch. He showed me both cameras side by side and the Canon’s quality was clearly superior. I made the switch. Then he started with the razzle dazzle.

”You want 128 MB card?”
”Yes.”
”You need leather case so you don’t scratch it.”
”Okay.”
”One battery not enough. You need extra.”
”Absolutely.”
”Underwater case goes down 30 meters. Very good.”
”Help.”
”Transfer to laptop not fast enough with USB. I give you this card reader. Much better.”
”Love me.”

He sold me the whole pile for $1000 Singapore dollars. That’s about $560 US. It wasn’t the 
best price I could’ve gotten, but considering I was under mind control and completely at his mercy, I did okay. When it was all through, we cried together, hugged, and said goodbye. I had seen the light. I’d been baptized. Everything looked different after that.

I am inspired. very very inspired.

Monday

’twas a short lazy day.
spent most of the day sleeping and watching old movies.
the fever didn’t help of course.
but it was a good rest i guess.

hmm. spaceballs is the epitome of crass humour, mocking every single movie made up to that point in time(circa 1987). i just love all the inside jokes, low blows and just plain silliness of it all.

it was a fat gluttonous day as well. had fried fish and fries for lunch, and the left overs for dinner. OMG. damn sinful. really. ARGH.

the eyes are doing well. still a bit dry from time to time, but much better than before.

The braun shaver arrived. safe and sound. best deal i’ve had in a long time.
and guess who’s clean shaven again? ME. i missed my old braun shaver for the longest time since it conked out. and thus, the reason for the scruffy look.

the STP package arrived as well.
got my 60L backpack, ready for any overseas trip!

my PFD (cuz of some new ruling coming up. This is a USCG approved model, and should exceed any local specs.)

and some smartwool socks(extremely comfy!). not to mention my Sugoi and Zoot visors. heh.

I’m a happy man.

Now i’m just waiting for the batteries and the BB.com package.

an update

Thursday was spent doing fuck all i think. Mostly watching shows and all.
oh yeah. i cancelled the booking for the cruise, and watched Narnia with Liz and SL. It was GOOD. Found out some things, and i won’t need to break my golden rule liao. Heh. that’s life i guess.
part of the past 2 reflections came together.

Friday. Went back to school to settle some admin, and talked to my principal and vice principal about the changing of my second CS (curriculum studies) subject to maths instead of EL. was told that they may offer me D & T instead. but i don’t mind that either. Had a nice chat with them as well, seeing a different side of them, and i think i would like to work for them in the future too. they ARE people developers.

after that, headed to NIE to submit some documents, and i was off to the SRC. It was a nostalgic walk, and brought back many memories of walking to the SRC for OST, OTT, and other activities. nice.After that, headed to Holland V to meet Waimun for lunch and beer. talked about his progress in rowing, and his future plans, as well as career options. it was a good talk.

after that headed to Vivo to meet my crew from FDS for dinner, and as usual, everybody was late, and we waited damn long. Due to the massive crowds, we went to harbourfront center, and the only place with lots of seats was MacDonalds, and so, we had our dinner there, talked for hours and had a good time. we left close to midnight, and i was too exhausted, and just took a cab home to crash. made it home just in time at 2359. NO MIDNIGHT SURCHARGE! WHOO HOOOOOO!

Coached the TL today(Sat) at 8am. there’s a new cutie in the boat man. new eye candy, but more work to train up again. ah well. But i was disappointed by the turnout today. only 6 people showed up, mainly due to health problems and / or trying to do their national duties. i.e. factory mode.

THEN…… it had to rain like fuck from 10 am – 2pm. walked to Golden mile(army market) to makan and had to go back to coach ECG. some improvements. they managed to do distance sets of up to 1.6km. i’m happy for them,and can see how much they have progressed since i took over the team in Feb.

Went to Suntec, and hit up the cocoa tree warehouse sale, and grabbed a shitload of chocolate. mostly for mum and some dark chocolate for myself. my new comfort food.

when i got home, the RC were setting up some karaoke thing for the dumpling festival. and made so much fucking noise for hours on end. i ended up getting so pissed off i took my bike out to the sports complex for maintenance, pumping up the tires, making adjustments,tweaking the seat angle and height, adjusting the shifters, general maintenance that takes my mind off things.

after doing all that i just HAD to take my bike out for a ride. ended up taking a short ride to Holland V, and cycling back. it was a nice ride, and class 95 was ROCKING. Their BPM show was damn good music to spin to. i liked it. saw a couple of accidents on my way up and down, but mostly quite minor (in that there were no casualties, just damage to the cars).

generally sustained abt 27-28km/h by just spinning and enjoying the ride.
it has been an eventful week. and there’s alumni AND ECG again tmr. whee.

Summer Cruise

The youngbloods are heading out to sea!!!

IBM Service Center, and the problem with procrastination

Went down to the IBM service center @ Changi Biz park today, cuz my Thinkpad’s battery is messed up, being only able to hold a fantastic charge level of 18%.

this problem has been around since last nov, but somehow i never managed to find the time to bring it down to Changi for servicing, due to many things happening, such as my exam invigilations, the cambodia incident, etc etc, as well as life in general.

So what happened? Well, when i brought it there, the service personnel told me that the warranty for the battery had lapsed, though it was supposed to have a 3 year warranty. (with a nice cute hidden 1 yr battery warranty clause).

and the CSO that i spoke to in november did not log the case report for me, and so, there were no records of this problem occurring earlier, and they were unwilling to do anything for me.

well FUCK ME. she could have logged it down for me. damn it.
that’s the problem with procrastination.
SIGH!!!

A wasted trip, another afternoon ruined.

ah well. THIS SUCKS.
Note to self:
1) Read the find print in the warranty policy next time.
2) Log down all CSO phone calls, with time, date and person spoken to.

Welcome to my life

I am starting over, with a new beginning, new post, new blog, time to start anew. the previous blog will be kept for memories’ sake, but it won’t be active anymore.

=W=