Cleared up desk…

February 28, 2006

… 3 months too late since Jan 1st.. but better late than never.

Desk looks halfway decent now… found lost CDs, cards, pieces of paper…. even some chocs and thumb drives and long lost souvenirs.

In some bad news… started to organise collected biz cards…. ended up throwing away more than 60-percent. I regret it already….. u never know when biz cards would come in handy.
I shouldave invested in a digital card scanner (or gotten office to get one)….

I cant believe that the number of pens ive lost since i started working here… esp. last year. Last year was the year of good pen give-outs… go for events and they give u nice pens as door-gift.
And… i cant imagine where they are right now…. on the other hand.. i change my bag once inna while so……… maybe one day i’ll find lost pens lurking in one corner of bag.

AHA! Ive found my “lost” DiGi sponsored Narnia calendar. Its a right beaut and glad that its still around.

In other news gonna have a nice piggy dinner today. Fren has stocked up on Corfu luncheon meat and all i gotta do is drop by the peranakan resto to get the veggies…. YUM! *droooool*

Gettin’ older…

February 27, 2006

… fren’s sweet baby celebrated birthday today…. had a cow fix @ Victoria Station, or actually something called super taurus delight ( i think) which is fillets of steak with prawns.
bday
And then we started to hallucinate about how it would be when we hit our birthdays….

Old and creaking but hey with rapid advancements in technology…. we may be able to virtually go to the bar and due to the virtuality of it, we can have customised settings ie. who to drink with, what to drink (paulaner, hoegardeen, tiger, carlsberg etc), the kind of music there, the kind of bar etc… LOL

In other news, have learnt some norwegian words from my encyclopedia aka dictionary fren…
Houn drit - dog shit (which is actually not grammatically correct in that language)
Han er schekker - that guy is cute
Fih fahn - exclamation! (sorry its fy faen)

Shall try to use these words/phrases regularly first before learning more new ones…

Had a disturbing convo this afternoon, too

me: had argument with hattie last saturday
dadda: did u both kiss and make up
me: we always get over it.. most times argue on purpose
dadda: swapped tongues?
me: ………you really have to get over your lezza fixation… :P
dadda: hee hee

I hate Mondays…

… you have a whole work week ahead of you…. 5 days times avetrage 9 hours = 45 hours minusing all the times for travel and plussing all the times you stay back.
So much to do, in so little time, and you hardly know where to start.

Worse of all, what would you like to remember for today???
More lay-man convo

cat: but looking at the big pic..whats to stop it.. it seems to be heading that way
cat: one day ….. just mac fans supporting apple os wont be a viable biz anymore.
A: i think otherwise
A: i think vista might be windows downfall
A: lol
cat: but u gotta admit.. vista may be an apple clone.. but its got way more functionality
cat: mac users curse vista.. but pc users dun care as long as tehy can use it
A: as the thais say…. same same but different
Later…
A: i think google is now beyond search
cat: web services
A: MSN and Yahoo trying to play catchup
cat: susah. image too old and stuffy
cat: no matter what they do
cat: esp when compared to the coolio new stuff google does all the time
cat: they seem inane, but… people will think…COOOLLL
A:yeah… but yahoo also used be cool
A:lol
A: now got a google web site creator
cat: compared to msn lar then google did radical new stuff. yahoo cant fight now
cat: wot that
A: like blogger + dreamweaver
cat:OMG
Later…
cat: what is meme?
A: When something has a number of possible explanations.
A:Memetics is an approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme.
cat: FAINT.
Conclusion?

A: i become ur tech reminder. keep you up to date
cat: HOR. better than beer, too.

Its just not rite. We arent machines.

Hangovers.

February 26, 2006

Had a nagging hangover the whole of yesterday… after nursing it the whole day… going out to drink some more seemed like a brilliant idea, rather than anything else.

Halfway into the nite, hangover was still there made worse by other things. And fren/devil’s advocate wont let it rest. Never ever.

“Cat you COW… why are you so rude??? cant you be nicer???,” this isnt the first time fren brought this up.
“I was NICE! What more do you want????Ive never been THAT nice before….!!!”
“There is a code of ethics when it comes to this sort of things…you dont just go doing that!!”
“I din do ANYTHING…said yes means yes..what else is there??????”
“You ALWAYS do that..always, always you will do that!!!!!!”
“I already said I have bad bad mood!!!!! I was still nice..what else more??????”

On and on it went.
After tearing hair out with frustration and suitably terrifying the cab driver…..
“Ok forget about it…. argue for a while… now its all good..lol”
……..
“Yea… all the yelling made my hangover go away…”

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After that we went on to Hoe House…. dunno why but lately its closing 30 minutes earlier than usual.
In some interesting news…the Oz army was in town on what they call “a paid working holiday” (this term gave me a nitemare later on… but later abt that).

They were pretty well-behaved. Not as regimented as the US navy when they hit town, the US navy always travel in groups… pehaps knowing safety in numbers esp. when they come from where they come from… there is prob. even an MP in the group to keep order.
Funnily enough.. when they go to another city/town ie in abu dhabi… fren (the invaluable walking encyclopedia) says that people prefer to stay indoors cos the american sailors are so rowdy n violent.
If you are having a nite out and see the police out in full force….chances are that an american naval ship has docked on msian shores. Be extra careful.
This isnt a slosh theory.
Its a well-known fact.
If your lucky, all you will see is a sailor puking and his mate eating it up off the floor.
Yes… they are very big on patriotism and all that tough soldier discipline shit.

When the french hit town, you’ll know they are french cos they are so well-dressed and the english r probably the fun-nest of the lot. Ah well.

bitches

The OZs were an ok bunch, nice and well-behaved… with a few rascals among them.
Wats funny is they’ve lived together for so long and never knew each others’ origins… so even tho they were OZs….they were still a mixed bunch. (Oz Da Dumping ground for convicts). In a way…rojak like Malaysians.

Then hangover came back… and when it rained a storm…hangover got worse.

Even had a depressing nitemare of not being able to travel again. Was on way to airport with some documents… i was supposed to go somewhere to renew something to be able to travel some more… then it occured to me that i could never ever…cos i dun do what I used to anymore. Things have changed.
And i was bafflingly sad about that… cos in my nitemare, it somehow meant….. i cant travel far far away to far off places.
The icing on the cake was when i realised my flight was with AirAsia.

Rebel without a cause.

February 25, 2006

Housing in M’sia is the pits.
On my way to work, i noticed some land barricaded…signs that it was going to be under construction. Just months before that some land on the right underwent the same thing… to make way for more office lots.
Id always been under the impression that buildings nowadays are made with lesser quality materials.

Go to any new housing estate and you can already see cracks starting to show. Elder bro who bought a house in KL, had to bring a digicam along to photograph proof. Is this the way its always gonna be?

Cos it raises a problem which M’sians all over the country are probably facing. Even from your own house, you can hear the sounds of the neigbours next door.

The turning of the tap… the swoosh of water…the setting down of cups… OMG and what was it that you did the nite before???

“ooohh……….”
“Keep it down woman, the neigbours can hear…..shhhhh”
“………..!!!!!”
And much later,
“Oh honey… just stop …the mood is gone.”

You cant even do it in your own house, can you? Much less when there are kids or visiting relatives around…

Living where I have lived… I do wonder whether my neigbours have ever done it… if it werent for babies as proof, Id very much doubt so. What a sorry state of affairs…… does it just go to show that maybe…. people are living too near each other and there is just NOT ENOUGH SPACE?

And I wonder how honeymoon suites in hotels fare…are they any better?

R we a suppressed culture…or do M’sians just do not orgasm anymore?

Speaking of suppressed culture…. the matter of the cartoons has created such a stir tat its carried over to Malaysia of all places. One paper has already closed down, one suspended and another one facing show cause.

You’d think newspapers would know better. An average bloke may look at the 3rd newspapers report and know what it means …. but how many more would take that as an excuse to be stirred into religious fervour. Its a bomb just waiting to explode.

All the more since its one of the major papers in the country…it is a more than blatant snub to the nose… really… being an established paper… shouldnt it have known better? And with 2 papers before it, already turned into examples. That was very DAFT.

Well, all sorts of theories have come up as to why the cartoons ever made their way into the paper… after publishing an unreserved apology…its off the hook at last. But parties responsible will be punished. ..mwahaha
Hallelujah.

TGIF

February 24, 2006

…at the entrance we heard the beginnings of Sandstorm…. how did they k now? How did they know we were coming??? We ran thru the doorway and ran to the front….
But barely 10 seconds later…it died and was replaced by another song….bummer!
But at least we had a good cuci mata session. Pics later…

This afternoon, I asked dadda…
“What do you want Boo to be when she grows up?”
“Anything she wants to be…as long as she’s happy”

Now THAT’s agape love.

Sloshed as hell…so do i have any slosh theory to contribute? Tot of a few just now… but forgotten them already.

Layman-est (lamest?) ever convo..

Some posts ago…. i was inebriated and thinking abt the whole apple/intel thingy..

There were some speculations running around loose, not ready to be tied down yet…
But basically, I looked at:
1. intel at CES and participating in a very very big and almost colourful way.
2. apple’s ad when they launched their intel-based machines. Have you seen it? They friends yet? or still “foes”?

This led to the burning Q: Apple and Intel together at last - whose more excited??
“We r equally excited..,” so says an intel exec.
“….and the Pee Arrr answer for that iiiiiissss apple and intel have the same product roadmap,” the pr mngr tries not to have a chiding tone.

Nearing the end of the lunch however, intel exec comments something along the lines,”with apple, more people will see more intel….”

Speculations run wild, rite????

cat: y the apple ad so snobbish wan?
N: they have to, they hv to maintain snobbish for mac fans. so long oredi mac say dun wan intel and suddenly now they have… hv to maintain face mar otherwise mac fans amok
cat: ya lar hor… pc users dun care wan
N: pc users gain alot, intel also gain alot.. mac fans are hurt
cat: then when u think abt it, now intel so hip and happening hor… most prob apple told them to shape up before agree to join them..
N: ya, apple prob said…pls do smtg abt your image otherwise how to gel? too old-fashioned.
cat: ya lar so intel happier lar.. more than willing to follow apple…
N: apple market so niche and small, now wit intel the fans not happy, but PC users are happy. Now they can even port TigerOS to PCs already. dun need apple hardware already
cat: would they do that…? mac looks so good… pcs like shit
N: who knows…one day maybe there wont be anymore AppleOS…only hardware.
cat: !!!!! OHMYGOD!!!!!
N: you say ohmygod.. but it can happen
cat: !!!!!!!

Phew…

February 23, 2006

cat: wow
dadda: wot?
cat: when geeks gather, u wont believe the info that flies about..
dadda: and…
cat: …and? WOW.

During lunch today with some ten plus people…. the sounds of toddler caught my ear.
I turned and sure enough there was this small blonde boy in a baby chair with his mom and her friend.

He was chewing the chair… teething age, gotta be younger than Boo and also damnably cute.

*soooo cuuuuuute*

“Hey look..look…got baby there.”
People turned…
Tee: he’s looking here…
me: …looking at you..
Tee: ..no, looking at you, your w E i R d..
me: ..no, he’s looking at you his fellow baby face-er… he’s thinking..”hey fellow baby come here and play with meeeeeeeeee”
Tee: ……

*In the midst of too much geek talk… I HAD to amuse myself.*

Watching Underworld 2 now…. 1/4 way into it.. and dun really get it yet. Kate Beckinsale’s eyes are bigger this time around and this is an uncensored DVD…woohooo…

After the movie I may write a little abt the layman-est everrrrr discussion I had this afternoon.

UNDERWORLD 2 - Evolution
Evolution all right.
Part one was lame compared to this one. Vampires and werevolves pushed themselves to the limits and beyond -taking whack after whack..bullet after bullet etc etc.. the whole screen was filled with blood, gore and unbelievable sadism.

Even Selene… now doesnt just look good in skintight leather whilst she waltzes around the enemies and plug them with silver liquid bullets, and basically kicks ass (prefer to watch hers instead of those she kicks). And the baddies arent just baddies…. they turn out to be the First True Vampire and First True Werewolf… which is a very very big deal.

Then, she drinks the blood of the father of all mortals and then KAZAAAMM! she’s not only kicking ass, but besting the First True Vampire at arm wrestles, able to lift him off ground by the neck and even takes a huge puncture in the middle but is still standing and rips off his wings.

How could that have been possible… she had at most.. what? less than half a regular mug of beer, which isnt very much… and isnt there such a thing as blood rejuvenation ie. the bloke’s blood cells cant have been running around in her veins for very long before they were renewed, no? Plus that guy was ANCIENT. Imagine all that centuries of living flowing about in his veins.. the cholesterol, the toxins (if he smoked and drank and fooled around tsk tsk tsk… but hey…if you lived THAT long and were immortal, wouldnt you???)…. with all that and more… how much super-powerness could half a regular mug of blood have given Selene? I mean, hoooonesstly…?

Kiasu culture

February 22, 2006

cat: what did they announce?
mr.t: nothing. They want to talk about 3G
cat: cheh
mr.t: they did leak out some details..
cat: what is it?
mr. t: i cant tell u lar
cat: music? what? ….? …? NDA till when?
mr.t: serious.
cat: is it big?
mr.t: no NDA. I just wont tell YOU. ROFL…hee hee hee
cat: ….

Limbo and dreaming of pig

February 21, 2006

…our work month is divided into cycles.. now its almost limbo time - the time where you are waiting for stuff to come out for you to give the go-ahead.

In the meantime, you are trying hard NOT to snooze at your desk..or go on extended tea breaks… or chat sprees.. or almost anything at all, really.

Been really hamming it up on piggy food the past few days.. they taste so good… are my tastebuds changing as i get older? I dunno but Corfu’s luncheon meat which has a mix of ham and bacon taste so damn good…

Didnt help that late late last nite fren had texted, “Oh god…me and my piggy again…

I need a piggy fix.

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At last Boo is no more a baby…. she’s standing now… and that was what it took for guy sitting next to me to not pretend to puke for once, when I showed her pic. I think he’s into cutesy stuff… just not baby cutesy stuff.

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This afternoon, there was a slight technical problem in the United Kingdom.

dadda: F*ckin’ scanner
cat: Isnt that difficult? Where’s the … ahem… hole?
dadda: *nudge*
cat: *nuuudge*
dadda: *nuuuuuuuuudge*

Serves u right for cussin’ my singing *NUUUDGE!!!*

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