July 27, 2005 @ 4:16 PM
“Please empty your cache & run a disk cleanup on your computer”
“By doing that, what does have it to do with the internet connection?”
“It’s part of our support procedure. We need to ask you do that”
“Like I said before, I’m using my Linux box to connect. There’s no cache and no disk cleanup like Windows”
“Oh. In that case can you find a Windows computer to test the internet connection. We need you to do that”
“I have mentioned to you before, I don’t have a Windows computer at this moment”
“Oh, we’re sorry then. We don’t support Linux.”
“What??!?!?!?!?!”
And the argument continues for the next 2 hours with 3 different support people. Nice.
July 25, 2005 @ 12:00 AM
There are definitely a number of times in my life when I just wish, and I wish really hard, for good things to come. Sometimes, or most of it; good things happened when you least expect it. It seems to happened just like that, it seems to happen as if it was meant to happen. It’s as if, that experience itself, was meant for you.
My momma used to say(and still does) that the best thing you can do is to listen. Listen to other people’s experiences. Listen to other people’s emotions. Listen to other people’s pragmatic & problematic daily stories. Listen, listen and listen. She always say by doing that, you’ll be much wiser. And truth to tell, I’ve been listening to her all along. So, does that make me wiser? I doubt so.
There’s always a need or let me correct myself, a requirement; in anyone’s lives that they need an ear in order to be heard. It’s as if it is a natural rule, that we need someone that we can lean on, whenever we feel unheard. For some lucky ones, they have someone who seems to be always and will always, there for you. But there’s flaw in this rule.
What about the listener?
Listeners are usually able to understand many kinds of situation and many kinds of problems, because it will be probably something that they have heard of before. And because they usually keep tabs on the things being told to them, they usually and never be pretentious towards their opinions. But what about them? What about those listeners who needs to be listen? To whom they can talk to? To whom they can lend an ear from? Other listeners? After realising this fact, it’s a cycle, isn’t it? But no, it’s different. It’s harder than you think. That is the reality.
The listeners don’t and won’t get much of an attention, when needed. The listeners won’t be understood because of the complicated thoughts they have. The listeners, will never be heard. You know why? It’s because the reality is, things will never be fair.
So, how do they get themselves to be heard? Well, they just talk to themselves. Crazy.
July 20, 2005 @ 2:00 PM
… Those are the things you love and wiping grease on your stomach. You love wiping grease on your stomach!
Which Star Wars character are you?
July 19, 2005 @ 4:00 PM
Here’s the baton, “3 worst movies I ever watched & WHY”. The rules are simple. You only need to pass the baton to 5 other bloggers & they do the same too. Inspired by Nadja 13 dislikes, here’s my take.
3 Worst Movies I Ever Watched & Why?
Armageddon. It’s the end of the world. End it man. It feels quite “impossible” for earth-made equipments being able to drill into a meteor rock, which has super high density & other unknown metal/rock elements in it. I’m not sure whether diamonds are strong enough to drill into the space rock, but I doubt so. I think.
Pluto Nash. Worst gig ever acted by Eddie Murphy & watched by me. Just doesn’t have the “it” thing there.
Scary Movie 3. The 3rd part of the blooper movie series. Compare to the previous releases, this is by far the worst with no solid storyline. I mean, even if it’s meant to be a blooper, come on, it’s got to be a good blooper then! Be stupid, but smart.
I’m passing the baton to Yeng, Mira, Lyn, Nadja and Charmaine. Hope it catches them, or the other way around.
So much for having many things to say.
July 18, 2005 @ 8:00 PM
Just take something in your everyday life and pervert it.
July 15, 2005 @ 1:00 AM
Do not, I repeat, do not sit under a steel signage that could cause damage to your forehead. It’s dangerous y0.
To George Amos, may your return to England will give you many camel toes.
July 14, 2005 @ 1:00 AM
At last, a story on one of the most expected medium to revolutionize the Internet.
With the convergence of new media being distributed freely using the Internet, it’s hardly not a surprise something like video blogging (or vlog) would become the next phenomenon. At first, you have stories being told by text. Then you have the audio side of story telling, described as podcast by the masses or blogcast by Microsoft. It would’nt be long for video to come over and join in the crowd.
Better? Bittorrent. So Internet 2.0.
While we wait for the bubble to burst, let’s enjoy a couple of vlog shows. Oh, here’s my first vlog. Live from 2005 Fete De La Musique, upcoming artist SaerZe, with her song, “Room For Two”.
July 8, 2005 @ 10:00 AM
Started at 8:51am on Thursday morning, explosions rocked the city of London and crippled the city’s life. The first explosion halted London’s famous underground train service. The 4th blast ripped a double decker bus.
Hair stands on my back thinking if that ever happens in KL. My prayers & condolences to the victims. I hope anyone or everyone I knew who might be in London is all right.
I have a feeling it’s merely a setup by certain parties (whom can or not even be terrorists). They just wanted to instill paranoia into the common people. I remember reading a book on world conspiracies. The most effective weapon in any kind of battle or war, is fear. You instill fear, you get definite chaos. A person is smart, but a group of people are stupid.
It’s kind of sad to watch how the world is playing its most highest rated soap drama, live in real life.
Major abundance of the whole incident on Flickr. You can definitely see what is like in London right now. Links from BoingBoing.
This is an interesting piece of information.
July 7, 2005 @ 5:00 PM
Earlier this week, I was assigned to design a logo and a business card for my employer’s new business (yeah, I know. DO NOT BLOG about your employer or any dirty details), a biotech company. My thought is, does a job designation title relevant to us now?
Some would prefer to have a simple title to their job, others might prefer the “exclusiveness” of having that certain title on their namecard. But is it relevant for the new generation of 9 to 5-ers?
There’s a bunch of people that I know who could care less about what their job needs to be labeled as. I have a friend who works as a 3D designer, but puts on his namecard as a Artificial Life Destroyer. There’s this dude who works at a nearby McDonalds, now runs his own CNI biz, calls himself a Managing Pusher. I’d like to title myself as Director of Eyebags on my personal namecard.
The job title nowadays, seems to be more “multi-tasked” than it was 10 years ago. There are more companies who would hire workers who has multiple skills and able to cope with the ever changing work space. There are even companies who just want to cut some corners in their cash flow by hiring workers who can do more than one thing & in return, being paid with a fat paycheck. But does, specific, narrowed job scope really matters nowadays? After all this talk about globalisation & free trade agreements, it seems to me in another 10 years time, everybody would call themselves “money-making whores”. Weird.
July 7, 2005 @ 12:00 PM
When a child opens up her eyes for the first time, the world is unknown to her. Coming to life, 9 months in human flesh incubation makes it a mystery to us all.
The mysteries about life & death can never be explained. It is a form that generates & dissipates thru life. We can understand how the form works. We can anticipate what will be the next move. We can visualize the character & the voice. We can feel like what it feels to be. It is this unpredictable element that makes life wonderful.
