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Thursday, October 30, 2008
[Fugly...] I'm sure you know the rule - don't take lifts when the building is on fire. You may get trapped inside, the lift carriage may come crashing down when you are in it, etc etc. Then again, they have "fire lifts". To be completely honest, I have no idea what's a fire lift. I suspect these lifts will still work properly during a fire. If that's the case, why not just install fire lifts instead of those that send you to hell during a fire? It's like the black box they put on planes that are supposedly indestructible. Why not make the whole plane out of that material? ^^^ by Locksley @ 8:43 PM.
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[Why so serious?] ^^^ by Locksley @ 9:44 PM.
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[Where are you going?] Being out and about without a camera phone is going to kill me. I've missed so many photo ops and material for my blog. Sometimes I wonder if I could pull it off without any pictures - WOT. Wall of text. I'm going to try. Have you noticed how the aunties and uncles like to do on buses with regards to their plastic bags? They have this "S" hook and would hook it on the seat in front of them. I think that's so...WTF. Today, this auntie on the bus did something similar. She was so cheap, she couldn't afford an "S" hook. So she tied her plastic bag to the seat in front of her using another plastic bag. It was so unglam and I To top it off...The genius that she was, she tied it in the middle of the seat. So she couldn't close her legs and sat with her legs wide open. With her right hand on her crotch. I'm so going to have nightmares tonight. The lift upgrading programme has been going on forever in my neighbourhood. My block is the last one in my cluster whose lift-on-every-floor still wasn't operational yet. Well, almost. Most people these days cannot imagine living without a lift that takes you to your floor. Older blocks of HDB flats do not have a lift landing on every floor, and not too long ago, they decided that an "upgrade" was in order due to the greying population - lifts on every floor was going to be a necessity. The thing is, residents have to vote on the upgrade and if it goes through, we have to pay for it. An interesting question was raised by the opposition - why are the residents paying for their mistake of not building a lift on every floor in the beginning? But I digress. I'm absolutely convinced that the contractor paid to carry out the upgrading works is artificially extending the length of time needed to complete the project. So that they get paid more. Why do I think that? The reason is simple. Most of the time, no one's working on the lift upgrade. The workers would come, work on the stuff for a day or two, then disappear for one week or so before the cycle repeats itself. Honestly speaking, it's not a big job, what with all the pre-fab walls and lift shafts. They are just taking their own sweet time. And the most damning piece of evidence - the new lift started working on Sunday. I believe by accident. I took the lift down on my way to work this morning and when I returned earlier, it was switched off again. "Maintenance", said the display. Maintenance my ass...It was fully functional for two days, now all of a sudden it's under maintenance? Then where are the workers? Fuckers. ^^^ by Locksley @ 9:32 PM.
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[Man United vs who?] I'm in a rut again. I push through life at 100-mph everyday throughout the week. On weekends, I can't find the motivation or energy to get anything done. I just want to laze around and do nothing of significance. The thing above proves it - it was taken on Saturday morning and I only got around to posting it now. I need to find the motivation and energy to get things going. So many things to do...So little time. ^^^ by Locksley @ 8:18 PM.
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[Random bits...] I finally switched over to Firefox. I have never contemplated switching from IE because I was comfortable with it and simply cannot be bothered. But recent events left me with no choice. First off, IE7 has a very serious memory leak problem. As you surf, the amount of memory taken up by IE7 just grows. And it keeps growing. I use a RAM monitor and very often I see IE7 taking up 300-500MB of RAM. With SP3, I thought they would do something about it. Not only did they not do anything to fix this problem, they created a new one. Ever since the installation of SP3, IE7 has been insanely unstable. It would freeze up while browsing. Very annoying. The other night, it happened seven times as I went though my daily surfing routine and I almost lost it. Time for a change. Firefox is indeed faster. Much faster. But it takes more clicks for me to get some of the things done. I guess that's just something I need to get used to. I haven't been using it long enough to tell if Firefox has a similar memory leak problem (I think it did, in the past), but I'm keeping a close eye on my RAM monitor. One issue though, is that my blog's layout looks different on Firefox than it did on IE. Not exactly the way I wanted it to be. But I guess I can live with it. Can't be bothered to change it anyway. For about 90 minutes in the early afternoon, a car alarm was going off somewhere in the distance. I'm glad it's somewhere far so it's not too loud, otherwise it would drive me crazy. Why do all car alarms sound the same? Repeating a series of different tones. That's stupid. When an alarm sounds, how would you know if it's your's? Received a call from a guy from Readers' Digest. These jokers always call on a Sunday. How hardworking. Anyway, he once called and asked if I wanted to renew my subscription - when I had over 14 issues to go. Luckily I checked before making any commitment. When he called earlier, I went to check the end date of my subscription. January 2010. Isn't that a tad early? I asked him what's the expiry date of my subscription in his records. He told me he lost his records. What. The. Fuck. I wasn't in the mood, so I told him I'm covered till Jan 2010 and that was it. Now I regret not giving him a good telling-off. What a moron. How hard can it be to keep track of your customers' subscription expiry date? It's printed on the mailer that comes with the magazine every month. And for him to get it wrong once, and now admitting that he lost it...What a douche. ^^^ by Locksley @ 5:09 PM.
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[Chicken and egg...] ^^^ by Locksley @ 1:11 PM.
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[Middle finger...] ^^^ by Locksley @ 9:41 PM.
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[Growing up...] ^^^ by Locksley @ 9:26 PM.
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[Therapist?] My sister went for a career talk and they were handing out freebies (like they often do). And they were nice enough to give a bag for the attendees to carry everything in. Just one problem... This is the bag. What does that look like from afar? Hope you've figured it out by now. ^^^ by Locksley @ 9:30 PM.
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[How waterproof are you?] ^^^ by Locksley @ 7:14 PM.
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[Bits of me...] When I bought my Nokia 6500s in April, I was pretty pleased. I've managed to find a phone, camera, organiser, MP3/video player all in one package. I'd rather not have to bring along a bag or pouch of some sort when I go out, so having a device that could do it all is important to me. Then as it turns out, my workplace doesn't allow camera phones. The bastards. After much consideration, I've decided to shell out for a PMP (personal media player, not a misspelled PIMP). I bought the Creative Zen X-fi on Wednesday. I've moved my MP3/videos from my phone to the Zen. So now I could bring my MP3/videos to work with me, even if I couldn't bring my camera phone. I'm considering whether or not to get bluetooth earphones for the Zen. There aren't a lot of choices. I'm looking at Creative's SE2300. At $169, it's an expensive pair of earphones (I'm the type who never buys earphones and just use the supplied ones). But not having to tangle with wires on the bus can be a great persuader... Work-wise, I'm moving. Probably. I can't remember what my colleague told me. He either said that the chances were very high, or that it's just a matter of time. I think my brain's fried from all the caffeine I take during the day. 10 minutes after the conversation, I already could not remember what he said. Basically, the organisation I work for has several office locations. I'm at the HQ. Most of the people are....Not at the HQ. Chances are, we are moving to be with most of the people. Which sucked. For many reasons. 1) Lifts take forever to arrive. You can spend 10-15 minutes just waiting for and being in the lift. A friend and I were once in the lift and there was music playing and he asked, "I wonder why we don't have music at [HQ]." I said, "Because at [HQ], it takes 30 seconds to get where you're going." Other people in the lift actually laughed. 2) I would need to take the LRT, transfer to MRT and then again to a bus in order to reach my new workplace. That sucked. Not only would my transport budget go north, but I wouldn't be able to nap in the mornings like I do currently on a direct, albeit taking-the-most-indirect-route-possible bus. 3) No privacy. I currently have a cubicle. The other place, open-concept. 'Enuff said. 4) Related to the above, since we're the "late-comers", all the choice locations are probably gone. I can just picture myself sitting next to the toilet/pantry, near the photocopy machine (with all the microscopic particles it spits out, cancer is probably guaranteed), or near the front door and every lost soul that wanders in would ask me for directions. 5) Limited car-park spots. Doesn't matter now, but it might in the future... 6) Leaving my current colleagues. Although our work doesn't overlap so it's not like I would need to adjust to working with new people (my entire team's moving, so work-wise, I would interact with the same people...by the way, it's a 3-person team), I would miss having them around and going for lunch with them. 7) The toilets at the HQ are very clean. It's almost like we have our own private toilets. At the other place, due to the high people-to-toilet ratio...Toilets are not as well maintained. I've toyed with the idea of taking a nap in the toilet cubicle after lunch....I sure as hell won't if I'm at where I'm moving to. Of course, there are some positives about moving. Meeting new people could be a good or a bad thing. It's hard to say. Also....There's this other thing.... Imagine if you were a kid and someone placed something you really want - a piece of candy, a toy, whatever - near you and told you that you can't have it. That's really gonna suck. I'm in a similar situation right now (the adult version, of course) and I guess it would be good to not be around something I cannot have. But truth be told, that's not a strong enough reason for me to want to move. My colleague was originally from there...And he's not looking forward to going back neither. Aragh. ^^^ by Locksley @ 8:32 PM.
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