blowin’ dro, 24’s, that how all my niggas roll!
today’s the last day of work for the year. woke up with a splitting headache, and i couldn’t get out of bed a while. fortunately, despite having idiots on the road, i managed to rush to the office in time (dropping myself off at the lobby to clock in and park the car properly right after).
gonna have a barbeque at zoe’s place this sunday, and i was chargred with picking up some stuff from the local hypermarkets. so my sibs and i went to the curve for dinner and some shopping. the main road between the curve and ikano was closed for decorations, so there was a pretty long line of cars waiting at a particular junction to get into that road (because somehow they didn’t realise it was closed).
luckily my sis was there earlier, and she knew that there were 2 lanes (not 1) that turn into that junction so she didn’t have much of a problem then. she also knew of the back way in, which we took to bypass this mass of jam.
we had dinner at marche movenpick. although it was my idea to go there, looking at the rib-eye stick that my lil bro ordered, i can’t help but think how expensive kids’ tastes are nowadays. i had my usual plain rosti and sausage. beef rosti, and lamb sausage weren’t available. 
after dinner, we made a short stop at borders, and moved on to tesco. got us plates, mushrooms, spoons, forks, drinks, foil. were supposed to get a few other things, but they were either out of stock or missing from memory. had to make a few calls to the food and bbq maestro merv to confirm a few things, since i’ve never really shopped for a bbq before. what can i say, there’s just not much opportunity when you’re living in an apartment.
got home. WoWed for a while. slept. end of story.
getting a new monitor, no matter what it is, is definitely worth every cent.
especially if it’s big, wide, doesn’t emit radiation, and doesn’t strain your eyes. 
only problems now are the nagging, and not being able to move the mouse cursor across the screen in a single wrist motion. will post some pics up later. angelina jolie never looked so good.
well, here i am, back at work again. very hard to get up today, having been away from work (for only 4 days though) with the dark skies and pre-rain humidity. was even 5 mins late cuz the cars were not parked in their usual positions and i had to go back up to get another set of keys.
sigh, working during the holiday season is tough!
(edit 30/12 1:00pm)
pics are up! 
and, did i mention that the monitor comes with a variety of inputs, as well as 4 usb ports and card readers? i was looking up and down for my camera charger, but when i couldn’t, i just popped out the CF card and slotted it into the side. works like a charm!
doh, just realised all WoW realms are down for weekly maintenance.
taking a break sure is nice. will still be on leave till tomorrow. hope i don’t forget how to work
by the way, merry christmas, and a happy new year to all!
was planning to to go town today, but WoW kept me home all morning, so whatever was left of the afternoon was spent repairing the two rear door handles of my Waja. can’t go tomorrow either, since my new ‘view’ is coming tomorrow. :DDD
hm.. hope i can just steal away for a bit. need to get some cooling for my [southbridge], which i think is causing some usb and filesystem problems.
maybe i should just trash this MSI motherboard and look for a second-hand Abit/ASUS one.
arghhhh stop the splurge already!
well anyway, time to start rearranging the furniture.
forgive me god, for i have splurged. i have spent my $ away.
3.5k on a wider view,
1k on some computer brain, and
170 on a bondage to virtuality.
forgive me god, for i have paid. donated some part of my life away.
31 hours, this week alone,
exploring worlds on the computer mone.
living quarters full of stuff,
and all my savings, never grow.
forgive me.
looked out my office window today to witness a fire at one of the neighboring setinggan communities. it was spreading rapidly, helped out by the strong winds. can see tiny masses of people congregating at one area, and lotsa motorcycle lights heading away.
heard sirens, and saw one engine on the federal highway. didn’t seem like it was going fast enough.
hope no one is hurt.
