yay. the singapore grrls are coming soon! coming to a chocolate buffet near you.
speaking of choc buffets, i kinda missed the last one. anyone up for a second round? 
the timing of stuff happening this month is just… really dangerously close to each other. big system bug will keep me at work tonight and tomorrow night probably. i must get it fixed before the weekend cuz i’ll be up in terengganu checking out the monsoon cup. then the following week i have more training with SAP, and right after that the girls arrive. phew.
Wednesday:
Level 1: eloquence: explaining a program bug that made a mess to users.
Thursday:
Level 2: orientation: driving to Kompleks Antarabangsa, KL, without knowing exactly where it is. well, i thought it was along Raja Chulan, but it was actually on Sultan Ismail nearby.
Friday:
Level 3: reflex: driving to Kompleks Antarabangsa, KL, with the usual route being blocked by traffic police. Tun Perak closed.
Level 4: being an informed buyer: went to Low Yat to buy a CCD webcam. Cycom guy (Ah Hei or something) tells me the camera is slow on the demo computer because the demo computer is USB 1.1. thinking something is amiss, i double check in Device Manager. guy gets offended cuz i don’t believe him and makes a scene. i just buy the damn thing anyway.
Saturday:
Level 5: confrontation: the webcam doesn’t seem to perform on my home computer. went back to Cycom to check. they (Darren) installed it to another PC that has 2.0 USB (something which I think they should’ve done in the first place). seems fine. reiterated their need to upgrade their demo PC. Ah Hei continues his “we are honest people” argument. in any case Darren was helpful enough, so I didn’t care what Ah Hei thinks.
Saturday/Sunday:
Level 6: patience: attempted to reinstall windows, since i didn’t do so when i changed my motherboard hoping that it’ll fix the USB problems (slow, s3 resume). system partition somehow got corrupted after installing sp2 (and i wasn’t even overclocking). had to reformat system drive, losing all my emails and maybe some pictures. computer seems slower after i successfully reinstalled everything though. grr.
Monday:
Level 7: health: down with fever. started off with a sore throat saturday morning from friday night’s BBQ at shud’s place with USC alumni. went to dispensary twice to get medication and mc.
Level 8: big boss: had to explain the program bug and proposed solutions again to the users’ GM. while being sick too.
And what did I get at the end: nothing, really.
rm3 parking + hours of technological showcasing = picnic bag + 1gb thumb drive.
not bad for a day’s worth of listening to marketing gimmicks and buyins. would’ve gotten myself a nice purple umbrella too, if i wasn’t too busy munching down slices of marble cheesecake.
my colleague won a nano. how lucky.
web trail: piffles -> imdb -> eva green:-
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
T’was the normal pain in the head. Annoying but never crippling. Today was the same, except on a slightly larger magnitude.
Hence the EL, which later got converted into an MC.
So that’s a migraine. I’ve always had it, but had usually attributed it as a common headache. And I thought it folly to assume that they were migraines without actually knowing the symptoms, and without a doctor telling you that they were.
And I’m starting to love painkillers. What migraine? But no, only if prescribed. Too much medication = bad.
Still, I’m wondering if I should turn in this MC. If I recall correctly, I haven’t taken MC this year at all. And that might warrant an award of sorts.
