The Borderlinx Experience

What a ride! my poor little ipods travelled almost around the world and they are finally here. yes, ipodS in plural form. To cut the long story short, i clicked twice while ordering off the Apple site and that's how it's done. Anyway, this is also an experimental purchase to try out my US shipping address in Ohio.

Oh, and i realised they actually assemble the ipods in China, or maybe just the refurbished sets.

If only they knew the final destination is Singapore ... caz it went from China to US via fedEx (shipped by Apple), and then US to Singapore via DHL (Borderlinx).

Nevertheless, shipping is fast. 4 days after i keyed ship from Borderlinx, they arrived at my doorstep. a little hiccup though... everyone refused to open the door this morning so they had to deliver again in the afternoon.

So, total damage is about 158SGD for the ipods and shipping is about 10SGD (after discount). Thankfully, i ordered 2 ipods, so shipping cost is split.

Err... the packaging is a tad simple though. maybe caz it's refurbished set. ah, cheap and can use good enough, more over got warranty.

why should i pay to book a cab?

It is quite a torture to take cab in singapore.
First, the rates. What town charges? $3 some more... It is almost guaranteed pick up in town for cabbies isn't it? But never mind, for the convenience, we let them be. Charge whatever you want, but why can't you leave me in peace in the cab.
Sure a little conversation helps, but not if the topics revolve around same stuff. Gah men cannot make it la, rental expensive la, and every cab driver thinks they are the better driver compared to the other cabbie who just cut into his lane.
However, the thing i cannot stand the most is the need to pay for booking. It does not make any sense at all. Already getting a cab is pain, esp between 8pm and 10pm. Cabs always act busy, as in they put up their LED lit 'busy' sign, but somehow they are never too busy to pick up phone bookings.
Cab bookings should be free. If i need a cab, i book. I'm guaranteed my cab, you are guaranteed your fare. Let's not try to protect these cabbies anymore, they are getting too pampered to the extent they are choosing their clients.

Guide to Actual Day Wedding

Step 1: Find a bride. Preferrably pretty and intelligent. Dun set your standards too high... something like Natalie Portman is good enough.

Step 2: Get a ride caz you need somethin to fetch your bride in. If you can afford it, buy one. Otherwise, rent one. Just remember to ask where is the switch for the headlights or else u will be fiddling around... wiper, high beam, left blinker, wiper, right blinker, high beam, wiper...

Step 3: Wake up in the wee hours of the morning... Try to make sure your buddies drive, transportation is hard to arrange. 

Step 4: Rehearse. Don't forget the lyrics. And most importantly... don't leave the lyrics at home!

 

Step 5: The rings. Set them nicely on the pillow, secure with a nice knot so the page boy wont accidentally drop them. Nice knots does not necessarily mean tight knot... If u were the bestman, never trust the person who tied the knot, even if he told you that he did a live knot. To be safe, bring along a cutter and hide it under your jacket, we wont wanna see the Father strugglin to untie a knot at the altar.

Step 6: And you are all set! just wait at the church and the bride will be delivered shortly.

Step 7: After everythin is over... rest. You can try to consume consummate but i doubt there's energy left for that.

Make your wedding more memorable by doing the below:

- make your xiong di and jie mei march in together (with arms interlocked) with you during the banquet. Nobody ever does that except norman.

- dun tell your xiong di about the above except briefly mention it on the actual day of the wedding, so you can take pleasure in seeing how they try to pair up.

- speeches... cater for as many speeches as you can. Norman's wedding will go down in history as the wedding with the most speeches. To outdo him, you can try calling upon the ballroom manager, the gynae who delivered your wife and even the ex-bf to give a speech... you owe it all to them somehow.

MSI Wind

With Twitter, who blogs these days... but as requested by Vince (he prefers to be addressed this way for some weird reason)... here's a post.

Since the demise of my trusty IBM machine... been living without a proper computer for months. Competition for a msn-enabled machine at home is stiff. The only available one comes with a screen smaller than an ezlink card and a qwerty keyboard no bigger than... err... another ez link card.

Then, i got my new toy in the form of MSI Wind. It's powerful enough for my needs, small enough to lug around and most importantly, cheap enough that i can still afford to eat Breadtalk instead of Gardenia, 668 bucks!

Black is the way to go... in fond memories of my Thinkpad. At 10 inches wide, the screen area is generous enough to do word processing and all... maybe it won't be a good idea to share the same screen with friends over a movie.

One week on... Im fairly satisfied with this machine. Afterall, i'm still 2.7k away from an iMac

Hongkong Dec 2008

alrite... since i'm free, i might as well upload a few photos from a recent trip.

you see, work = bad, holiday = good. So apart from churning disgustingly huge amount of money for my company (which somehow doesnt seem to filter into my bank account), i took a holiday.

It was really tough taking photos with just 2 ppl on a trip. Cant take photos together, so we ended up taking photos for other couples most of the time.

Sometimes, i steal shots of other girls but dun tell my gf.

Yes, they reconstructed the Bellagio fountain.

I love this guy.

Does anyone not love Hello Kitty now?

huat ah!

I'm alive! huat ah!

50mm f/1.8

Got myself a new 50mm prime lens. Pretty cool stuff for quite an affordable price.

Took it for a test drive at the airport and quite impressed with its performance indoors w/o flash. I'm thinking it should be fast enough for use during Numa's wedding although i'm still getting used to crop issues. Saturation's a bit off too but thats the photographer's issue, working on it.

I'm finally not wasting my shutter count with useless photos of absolutely nothing.

Nevertheless, it was a fun night out with plenty of volunteering subjects. Check out the shots on my facebook.

Revamped!

i am in the midst of re-doing this place.

hopefully, it will look cleaner neater and simpler.