Psych!

Boys and girls, 'cab' does not mean 'faster'. I'm waiting outside a clinic room now for an extended prescription because i arrived at one for a twelve-twenty appointment. I know. That's horribly late. But i had to take my grandfather for a CT scan in the morning, and that appointment was only made yesterday. I stood for twenty minutes along Geylang Road, unable to get a cab to save my life, and when a white Mercedes does arrive, there's a jam everywhere. The icing on the cake is that while my doctor refuses to see me now, he's only now seeing a patient that arrived at twelve twenty. What's the point of enforcing your punctuality when you're not punctual, either? I'm probably going to be the last patient he sees today, which should be just great.

pimp my... thing

this is obligatory, i guess.

MOSH.07 - Saturday, Thirtieth December, Six PM. Play Den, The Arts House.

$10 - Proceeds go to Club Rainbow

Music Of Singapore

Club Rainbow

Consumas Is Over

Only Three Hundred And Sixty-Four Days More To Consumas!

Merry Consumas!

But this poor guy can't even afford proper pants...

the camera =

not fucking worth it.

family.

track record: ultimately disappointing.

Self-Shot Saturday

cummings

it's a blog entry. not a piece of e.e. cummings poetry.

why put things that no one's bothered to understand out there?

edit: The Economist is so right about LiveJournal.

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English As It Is Broken.

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Loser.

joyeux décembre, partie quatre

joyeux décembre, partie trois

joyeux décembre, partie deux

joyeux décembre

Christmas Is Going To The Dogs

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Get off your sled and go to bed, don't you ever tire? Throw a bone I'm finally home, curled up by the fire. Snow is falling from the sky, like ashes from an urn. Sweet dreams my little one, now it's my turn. Well Christmas is going to the dogs. We'd rather have chew toys than yule logs. And things aren't looking very good, it's true. So i'll just lay here and chew.

unZune

hi.

for all those enamoured with the Microsoft Zune because of its 'huge, high-resolution widescreen' that will 'kick the iPod video and Apple's sorry asses so bad', could you once and for all note that:

1 - it is not a widescreen. it is a standard 4:3 aspect ratio screen, just like the iPod with video. just because it looks wider when you turn it around sideways to watch video and view photos doess not make it a widescreen. it's because things tend to look wider in their horizontal orientations than their vertical ones.
2 - it is not of a higher resolution that the iPod. it has the same 320 by 240 pixel resolution, but is a few centimeters larger than the iPod with video's screen, making it a coarser display.
3 - that's all.

no love,
aaron

the devil wears moleskine, part seven

'Time to shower!'

it's two AM, and my sister is showering for the first time in over twenty-four hours. ew.

cooked this just now.


last Friday i accomplished a lot. i:

-got my DKNY chronograph fixed,
-collected my replacement identity card,
-extended the validity of my passport,
-bought cake mix and frosting at the Paragon Marketplace,
-bought a 8" by 8" cake pan at the Paragon Marketplace,
-bought a set of measuring cups, whisks, mixing bowls, a rubber spatula, a lovely grey plate and oven mitt at Ikea.

all this cost me less than fifty dollars, but sadly is more or less the last of my spending money. but. whatever makes you happy, right? and the cake's delicious.

shameless fraternity

Dear Borneo Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation,

You really are shameless. Placing an ad for the new Toyota Camry and new Lexus LS430 one right after the other, when they are more or less fraternal twins. Or, to be less nice, twins with one having Down's. 

Can we be a bit more original with our car designs? Can we at least have some level of seperation between the advertising of your near identical pseudo-luxury cars and near-luxury cars?

No Love,
Aaron

no balls, no backbone

Dear Candy Empire,

I commend you for daring to put up that sign in the first place. However I shall now have to boycott you because you haven't the balls to leave it up. Worse, you replace it with a sign that goes completely against what the original sign said. Pathetically, you now take even that second sign down because people are making fun of it, and threatening you.

No Love,
Aaron

little boxes

i got baked yesterday.

ServiceOne

Dear Singapore,

I hope your Motorola phone doesn't break any time soon.

No Love,
Aaron

what a difference a month makes

my father called me to wish me a happy birthday today.

speechless, aren't you?

the devil wears moleskine, part six

yes. six.

and why are there people buying moleskines and faux-moleskines left and right? seriously? MUJI even sells a faux-moleskine cahier for seven-sixty. YES. SEVEN-SIXTY. what a rip-off.

otherwise the new MUJI at The Paragon is lovely.

blue teeth

Dear Palm,



As much as I love the idea of wireless synchronization and the fuss-free ideal of being able to update and backup a device without having to plug anything in, that dream is broken when it takes literal hours.

Also, could you not make synchronization cradles that break for no apparent reason? And could you support the devices you manufacture for more than a couple of years?



Thanks none,

Aaron

Nice She Ain't

'Yes, the art of sabotage. It's practised every day in the suburbs. But few do it as well as Bree Hodge. Or, as politely.'

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is there really a need to report the PSI level when it's at twenty-six?

notes from a hospital, part three

i don't understand how 'Violence In Iraq' can still be a news heading. there's a frickin' occupation going on there. of course there's going to be violence.

notes from a hospital, part two

Dear CNA,



I have a hard time believing ANY of these fungi improves the appetite.



That's all,

Aaron

notes from a hospital, part one

doesn't anyone ever wonder why on earth they bother obtaining sketches or other illustrations of court proceedings?

we get the idea that cameras are not allowed inside. you have footage and pictures of the defendants and plaintiff before and after the proceedings.

what are the bloody scrawlings for?

also, it takes a special kind of idiot to go for an appointment at a government hospital and not bring anything along to wait and pass time with.

oh well, it was good while it lasted.

and now, why Nokia doesn't allow their phones to be called 'phones'. if you can't make it out, the screen says '-Calculator- Insert SIM card'. and yes, of course, there is actually a SIM in it.

my new Nokia

the Nokia 8850 blacked out. the screen illumination flickers and the screen itself occasionally blanks when pressure is applied to the top bits of the phone. unable to afford Nokia Care, i've taken it down several notches to this Nokia 2100.

it's much less purple in real life. it's in the Gadget Pillow picture, if you don't believe me.

go-go Gadget Pillow!

this is how my pillow looks, right now. it's most (not all) of the small electronic goods i own.

'i have eight million dollars.'

Dear Grey's Anatomy,



why do you bother having a theme song if you're never going to play it?

why do you start to suck so much and then suddenly get a little bit better, but still not enough for me to stop feeling like i'm wasting my time?

why do you make George so utterly sad?



No Love,

Aaron.

my new phone

for real this time, people---i am broke, and my phone line got suspended 'cause i can't pay it, y'all. and for some reason this is the only phone i own in which my prepaid card will work properly in. besides, you don't think i would seriously use the Nokia 2100 full-time, do you?

those of y'all who don't have my prepaid card number can call or text me at my usual number; for now my postpaid line is still accepting incoming communications.

balance

life, i believe, is about balance.

i had a very crappy night, but i finished it with a perfect grilled cheese sandwich. that balances things out.

i was using my prepaid card in a crappy pink/purple Nokia 2100, and the SIM stopped working. i stuck the SIM into a silver Nokia 8850, and it jumped right back to life. 

my family is crazy. as am i, if you believe everything that's said about me.

balance.

Desperate Surgeons

can someone explain to me why i watch Grey's Anatomy? because i have no idea why. 

get fresh with Be Fresh!

i think this is pretty much self-explanatory. 

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Divert On Line 1

oh, how i love those words.

it's exam season

it's guaranteed to be a little crazy.

unfortunately, i already am crazy, a little or otherwise.

procrastination makes it happen

i should be writing, not blogging.

systematic samaria (oxymoron)

my sister, no matter what she tells you, is not systematic.

that's all.

Bimbos Listen To Xtina

and, now, she's just asked me how to spell "Aguilera".

Bimbos Listen To Yellowcard

this is my sister trying not to look outraged at me saying that bimbos listen to Yellowcard.

i said that because she didn't get the references in the title of one of their songs. specifically, "Martin Sheen Or JFK".

you might be able to see that she's smiling in the photo. she claims that she is not, she is merely playing with her teeth.

yes.

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hi everyone

all of you most of you are LOSERS, FUCK OFF PLEASE. THAT'S ALL.

LaMY

there mine goes. i hate my life.

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One summer, a suicide.

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Like a cloud, his fingers explode.

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The Fray sucks.

the devil wears moleskine, part five

five times. wow. and maybe a sixth, too, if it continues to screen. and maybe a seventh, to round out the number.

i'd like to write more, but i'm not going to.

silver sliver

the Chinese office of the company my aunt works for gave her this silver Motorola SLVR L7 to use when she's in China. it replaces the black Motorola RAZR V3 she misplaced.

i actually like it a lot---i think it looks way better than the black-colored version.

pearl jam

Pearl Gray?

i want.

Biggg Elmo!, part two

i still feel bored.

who needs sex?

LG. Life's Good.

the cold open

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -GMarx

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TRENDY

this is the first ah lian bag i've seen that proclaims itself as TRENDY.

lovely. and to round things off, a quote from the current bag lady herself.

'what? it's eleven thirty-nine already? i still have to clean the LV wallet!'

Now Playing---On Both Sides

this is the new Nokia N95. can someone explain the rationale behind the slide-down dedicated media keys to me? because it would appear that their functions are duplicated by the directional pad whilst in music-playing mode. and in standby mode, with the music player in the background, the phone's screen orientation is vertical instead of horizontal, so the media keys are pointing in all the wrong directions. and do you really want to slide the phone down and reach all the way up there just to do something with your music?

buy an iPod, lah.

panic (at the PowerBook)

so i've finally got a proper copy of last.fm working on my Mac, and i run it for a couple of hours. then i check my user profile. and apparently i've been listening to PANIC! At The Disco, whatever that is.

um, hi? no, i haven't?

and what the heck is Waking Ashland? if there's one thing about me that you do not screw around with, it's... well, there're many things, but music is definitely one of them. you do not screw around with my music. and there is no PANIC! At The Disco in any of my iTunes libraries.

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If you're going to make your old man buy you an Xbox 360, at least have the decency to carry it yourself. You won't be a teenager for much longer, for goodness' sake. And, also, don't be such a cheapo---at least spring for the full Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 Core bundle is like the poor people's discount.

blue is totally the new green

i've just noticed... almost everything media-related by Apple is blue. Safari, iChat, Mail, Preview, and now iTunes.

in other news, it looks like we're in for a spot of lovely weather.

i would like to marry Steve Jobs

so, normally, the day after an Apple Special Event, i am left both excited and disheartened, because OMG SHINY NEW TOYS, but also OMG CANNOT AFFORD ANYTHING ANY MORE.

so when all those shiny (and matte---new nanos and shuffle are aluminium) new iPods were lauched i immediately checked my bank account balance, in between transcribing everything from the IRC chat room into the iChat window, where i was delievering news to Adri.

some of the new features, like brightness control, gapless playback and some sort of way to see where i was on the list whilst scrolling through thousands of songs/artists/albums, i have wanted for a long, long time.

so when the new iPods, with all that and some new Search function and longer battery lives and brighter screens were annouced, i was dismayed. because i won't be able to afford anything new at that price for a very, very long time, even if they're cheaper now.

but OMG Apple. they updated the software for ALL fifth-gen iPods. so i have brightness control, gapless playback, and an alphabetical overlay when i scroll through lists above a certain speed!!!

i don't have Search or a brighter screen or a larger-capacity battery, but WHO NEEDS ALL THAT? the Search is too Creative-fussy, anyway. and i have daily access to a power point. or a computer with FireWire or USB 2.0 ports.

I AM SO EXCITED!

the devil wears moleskine, part four

"This is a non-gentle reminder that we are meeting at SIX-THIRTY PM, at RAFFLES PLACE INTERCHANGE. I don't understand why it's so difficult to confirm an appointment, especially when all you have to do is send a quick response, but the details of your incompetence do not interest me. Those of you who DID respond---what do you want, a kiss on the forehead and a gold star on your homework at the end of the day? Be late at your own peril, I am in an excellent mood today. Oh, and Emily? Dress like a hobo and you will be shaming just yourself. And me. That's all."

wow. six Prada references in one (admittedly long) text message. and, yes, i think i am très très cool, and très très chic. that's all.

feelin' blue

staying up for the Apple Special Event was a huge letdown. 

well. the new iTunes icon is blue, so at least that's fitting.

parmesan

this girl would die for it.

Biggg Elmo!

nope. haven't gotten any less bored in the last fifteen minutes.

the devil wears moleskine, part three

so, i watched Prada a third time last night. and then i re-watched bits of it off the internet. and i went to bed. and woke up over twelve hours later. and i guess i'm not going out today. which is sad, because the shiny shiny new MasterCard has just arrived.

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little boxes

they're here! now there are just a couple more things i need to get...

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I am so sick of 'Bend Over For Singapore' and yet it hasn't even begun yet. The table next to mine is currently being occupied with obnoxious expats posted to several Asian countries. Why did we have to mix it up a little and come to the low-rent place this weekend?

the devil wears moleskine, part two

"i don't eat anything, and when i feel like i'm about to faint, i eat a cube of cheese."

 

the devil wears moleskine

 

sistickets, part two

printing is still fun!

sistickets

printing is fun!

it's just, i don't know, drizzling or something.

and i want very much to be outside, now, walking around.

"come out, you little fuckers!"

that is my sister, samaria, shouting at the Popular price tags of her new pens.

she has now decided that she is going to use soap and elbow grease to get the job done.

"oh my god, time to scrub out the little fuckers!"

look...

who's missing?

sirocco, part unknown

brian-fucking-eno.

not that you wouldn't understand, but you just won't.

brian eno. wow.

dear diary

today i lost my fucking wallet.

that's all.

i'm calling, can you hear me?

so i'm sitting here, at the Windows PC, and the Panasonic behind me has Channel U on. and there's this promo for this new show called My Lovely Samsung or whatever, and the background music is Leona Naess.

thanks a lot, MediaCorp.


so i'm sitting there, looking through the 8 Days that my sister bought and brought back. to see what they're peddling and pushing on the great unwashed masses these days, you know? and they've reviewed Regina Spektor's new record.

thanks a lot, MediaCorp.

minus one

twelve hours and one diazepam later, i still feel like fourteen kinds of shit.

expectations = disappointments

did you know that the Sirocco is a Mediterranean desert wind?

and that the Scirocco was, and will be, a Volkswagen coupe?

that's all.

little boxes

it's two.

i have a psychiatric appointment in ten hours.

all i want is to watch more Weeds. and, of course, my Sirocco.

neither is possible. i am hence, very depressed and have thus put away all the diazepam.

"Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same

There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same"

sirocco

i feel rather... i don't know. in-limbo-ish. looking forwards, looking backwards. waiting for some thing(s) to happen. and, to complete the inscrutability, here is a random iPhoto from my China trip!

day, week or year.

Apple & Creative Announce Broad Settlement Ending Legal Disputes Between the Companies

today is not a good day. this is not a good week.

i think hell might be freezing over soon, so it might also start snowing in Singapore. time to break out the scarves.

white Chocolate

i hate white chocolate. i especially hate white Chocolate. yes, the buttons still light up in red. hi? third-generation iPod, anyone?

wait, has anyone heard of pink Chocolate?
i mean, seriously. this is taking it a bit too far. it's not like it's the RAZR, you know?

from www.stuffmag.co.uk:

"Both have identical specs to the original KG800, which means a 1.3MP cam, 128MB internal storage for tunes and Bluetooth. They also have the red back-lighting which, in combination with the pink paint-job, is making us feel quite ill."

sadly (and you know i'm right here), the pink version will be a big hit. wonderful electric indeed. i fucking hate Verizon for using Goldfrapp to promote the American Chocolate.