Sleep...eat...whatever...

Lets see, according to my calculations I stayed awake for...


OMG! 63 hours!!!! But I must admit that I wasn't alert for probably 1/2 the time I was awake with my eyes open. Catching little catnaps in between (in which the longest lasted for 45 minutes) did help though.

Cigarettes help as well.

Carl's Jr. Makes the best burgers, period. I seriously always enjoy the Bacon Double Western thingamajig.
It wasn't as messy as I thought it would've been though. I'm getting skilled @ burger munching. Anyway, dinner with KXXZ was great but sometimes I wonder if she really enjoys my company. Well, I guess I'd have to keep wondering.

There are TV series and then there's "The West Wing"...I've always enjoyed watching stuff written by Aaron Sorkin.

I must say that it did become less witty and interesting after the departure of Sorkin at the end of the fourth season. Naturally, their ratings took a nosedive as well. Of course there will be some fans out there of the series that are trying to get NBC to continue probably to like the 10th season or something.

How many times have I watched an rewatched the series...it's time I completed my collection and bought season 7...the final. I must say though that I think not enough credit has been given to the casting director because without such a great cast, it wouldn't be as good.

Oh well, sometimes, things just fall into place for no apparent reason and they also sometimes fall apart for no apparent reason.

I STILL LOVE MY MacINTEL!

I'm gonna start a section on "New Word of the day".

Today's new word is : Anthropomorpic

MacIntel...Hahaha!

Yeap...it's just another day. Amazingly, I had dinner with KXXZ @ Botak Jones. According to KXXZ, the hungry one will get his/her food last. In the case of today, her prediction came true. So I was enjoying myself stuffing her with chips from my Hot Dog set.

It was a rather good dinner actually. It also gave me the opportunity to flip flop and pour out my frustrations over the past few days, weeks, months and years. At least she can offer a listening ear which is really nice.

Dinner ended on a pretty good note for me although I keep wondering if that was true for her as well. In any case, I shall learn from Commander Taggart (of NSEA Protector) to "Never Give Up, Never Surrender!".

Lets see what happens after...

I did mention to her though that to live a moment of happiness is better than not to have experienced that happiness at all.

Oh...I've got my Mac X86 wireless working by using the D-Link DWL-G122 USB


I've also got an external speaker hooked up to the Travel Pac USB Audio device because the internal SoundMAX 1986 card doesn't seem to have any Mac drivers. So, the Philips speakers are doing their job pretty well.



So the final setup of the Asus A8Fseries laptop running Mac OS X 10.4.9 looks kinda like this:

Big Ass TV

Well, not as big as my old projector but 40 inches is pretty decent don't you think?

Went down to collect the "free gift" of an LG Home Theatre System only to find out that the wait was over an hour. Also, the friggin box is HUGE!

Word of advice to marketing managers out there...it's a bad idea to let 3rd parties handle freebie collections. RewardsLink was the place to go collect the HT set. Guess what? The queue of over an hour was also due to the fact that they were friggin understaffed. Out of 5 counters available, only 2 were manned. Can you imagine?

Obviously, the other three counters are meant to look impressive and serve no other purpose.

I feel that LG should've allowed people to collect their so-called "free gifts" wherever they purchased the principle product from. That would save a huge hassle of going downtown, thus incurring furter costs (such as parking, ERP and transport) to pick up the product.

Also, they ought to have a warning to inform people of the size of the box the HT system came in...most were taken by surprise. The fact that the collection place was so understaffed meant that customers couldn't get a hand in bringing the product to their cars.

The hotline? Gosh, I don't know why they even bother with it. It's impossible to get through and if you ask me, it's probably because they've left the phone off the hook...

Oh well...this is called service HAHAHA!

Night Shift...

It's the night shift in the studios again...

Oh...and I recently grabbed the picture taken by Vincent (Nightlife Sg - my namesake) of us guys @ Double-O for the Kawaii event.



Quite a good night for the three of them and Damian got sabo-ed by us too! Hahaha!

In any case, the night shift affords me some time between doing maintenance and writing my blog. I've also got this other photo of myself playing DJ in the OAS.



I'm still wondering what it is about me that makes me attracted to the wrong people...Oh well...I'll have to keep wondering I guess.

Out of it...

I'm so freaking out of it that everything's an eye opener for me now.

What am I referring to? The clubbing scene that is...

I guess after abstinence for so long, it's only fair to say that I'm no longer with the 'in' crowd. Things are gonna change though cuz tonight at Double-O, I began to realise what I've missed for the past couple of years.

Time for me to move back into the scene before I pass my use-by date. Hah! It was good fun today with D taking the stage and making a fool of himself infront of all of us (and for the benefit of some girls). I say girls because women and ladies would probably not find him as attractive. Youth has its benefits I suppose...

Damn, I sound like a grumpy old man now...

Suckers...

Sometimes, I just wonder what will make me learn the lesson...

Am I such a masochist? or just plain suckered?

When matters of the heart are concerned, I guess I'll never learn from the past. It's kinda like a cycle which happens to me once a year or more...

Lets see....it started post-puberty when I was 14 and it's been having it's semi-annual cycle...

As usual, in the end I get burned but what do I do? Never give up hope...geez.

Such is the power of nature and instinct that I doubt if I'll ever stop. Heh....

Sometimes I wonder...

If I'm placed so low on the "strategically important" list of people that they tend to forget that I exist...

In any case, the dust has pretty much settled on how I feel so it's of little consequence to anyone out there. I just got back from getting a new backup drive which is 500gigs...at least now I can copy the stuff over from the 320 gig drive that I got that's a little defective.

In any case, my tossup now is...should I get another 300gig drive as a replacement? Do I really need that much space?

Yeah, the mind boggling things that I think about. I'm beginning to feel that 1 terabyte ain't enough for all the stuff I had...minus the 120 gigs that I lost when my friggin Seagate died on me. Not to mention the fact that even though I purchased the HDD in 2003, the warranty started from 2002 which means that its 5 years are up. Dammit.

Contradictions...

"Woman's at best a contradiction still." - Alexander Pope

It's strange that one would contradict oneself without knowing it. Perhaps given the situation, one might not realize the contradiction at that point in time.

Women and time are contradictions. One complains about another forgetting the time after falling asleep yet while having a conversation with another friend, she forgets the time herself.

Having passed on other appointments on a saturday night I was eager to at last be able to spend more time together. But alas, it was not to be. Oh well, I shall be magnanimous and say that it's okay, and that it happens especially when conversations about the heart, family and relationships are concerned...NOT!

It was a sore spot I guess which ruined an entire evening for me. Having spent hours driving around wandering aimlessly while waiting for "the call' which never came to be. I guess it's the kinda thing that happens to me more than to others.

The person in question would obviously be reading this and might or might not be bothered about the fact that I was. I guess I did make good use of the earlier time I spent waiting grabbing some songs from my CD collection and compiling them into 1 disc. At least it wasn't a complete waste of my evening...

Aristotle...

"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

However, in this case, it should read

"Improbable possibilities are to be preferred to probable impossibilities."

Confused? Yeah you ought to be. This is almost exactly how I felt after having a conversation tonight. Now I won't go into details as to the conversation per se but suffice it to say, that I was probably more confused after it than before it. This is begging for another quote "Post Hoc, Ergo Procter Hoc" or "After it, therefore because of it"

Once again, I am left with a greater dilemma than ever; but as someone very close has mentioned very recently that, "matters of the heart are both confusing and complicated." I couldn't agree more except that my heart is very clear, so is my conscience but I'm confused as to the reaction I received.

In any case, I have no choice but to keep pursuing the matter I suppose until one day, it can be resolved. I need more resolve than what I have now so it's time for high resolutions. Hahaha!

Interestingly as well, I was dropped a bombshell in that that particular heart belongs to another. Well, the ironies in life never stop and fail to amuse me. For once I thought things were great and well...as usual, it got worse again.

C'est la vie, eh?

What's going on?

Things are falling into place, 1 piece at a time. But matters of the mind and heart are pretty different. How does one regard the confusion that sets in when matters of the heart are concerned? It's close to impossible.

But then, impossible is possible with an im....

Does one draw courage from knowing the fact that matters of the heart can and often destroy friendships?

It's such a catch 22...

Power sial!

Hey...it's been a while since I've updated this page. Many apologies to my faithful readers out there. It's been a pretty hectic couple of weeks really. With the job interview that lasted for 3 hours, the contract signing which took another 2, and the super rush to start the job (within 3 days of signing the contract).

That didn't give much time for it to sink in...that I'm now at least getting paid on a regular basis. Hahaha!

The pay was a little disappointing but it doesn't matter cuz it'z the working environment that's important (well, at least it is to me). The people are nice and friendly and even the big boss gave me a nice first-day talk which is pretty rare here.

I must say that I enjoyed my first day at the station so it looks like a good start.

Hope everyone's been doing well too!