Geek porn

After researching online for a camera to get for my trip to Turkey, and due to the overwhelming support for Panasonic LX3, which I believe is definitely the right choice (so far it’s a brilliant cam to me), I got it today from “MS Color” at AMK. I just want a smalllll camera with a wide-enough-angle lens (LX3 is 24mm btw) to take the scenery. Best of all of this camera is that there is a hotshoe (to add external flash) and ability to addon an adapter for wide-angle, telephoto or macro lens !

Even though I’m departing next week, I’m still having my cough and I just went to the doctor just now to get antibiotics due to my infected lungs or something green phlegm. Hopefully it will be cured by then.

And i’m damn pissed off. My graphics card has been giving me problems lately when I play Dirt 2, having 2 rows of small square boxes. Probably due to the card having some problems sad sad day. I hate it when my desktop gives me problem, I have to like troubleshoot it so much!! So I ran 3dmark vantage (which ran fine previously) and it gave me the same problem as well =\. To double and triple confirm it’s not a driver conflict issue or some sort I reformatted the com but still no use!

Oh well I think I shall just roll on to my bed and not think about the stupid computer.

Sick sick

School has started and i’m still sick. Went to see the doctor before going to school, went for one lecture and it was bad enough so I decided to head home. Felt really really drowsy.

On the bright side, just 2 weeks or more and i’m off to Istanbul, how interesting!

Internship end, Don’s birthday and fever

Internship has ended after 3 months, 12 weeks seem to have past so quickly. The company there was great (as in, colleagues). I will definitely miss them. Thanks to my bosses for passing me with commendation!

On my last day we went to celebrate our (the interns) departure at pump room, dancing drinking tequila shots. Went home, didn’t drink enough water before going to bed and was like seriously dehydrated the next morning. Throat extremely dry and went out to celebrate Don’s birthday, developed a fever halfway.

Oh! We ate Oscar’s at Conrad, the buffet was great… food was good and so was the price. About $50 per pax? But it was free to me thanks to Don! Got him a topman bag + 2 shoes shared between Eugene and me.

Then from Conrad we went to Cine for kbox which didn’t help my sorethroat, and then proceeded on to Siglap for dinner then Changi Airport and then East Coast Park.

By the time I was home my fever has already developed to a terrible one. Ate panadols and drank a lot a lot of water. Each time I wake up in the middle of the night I will drink 500ml of water .

Zoo with the old folks

Went with my company to the Zoo today to accompany the old folks from SARAH there. With my little or absolute no knowledge of any dialect, I managed to squeeze out some mandarin juice in other to try communicating with them.

Woke up at normal going-to-work time, got changed, fetched Jasmine (other intern) and Crystal (a mother of 2) from Serangoon area. Went to the Zoo, ate breakfast, picked the old folks up, walked to the tram station, took the boat, then walked to the elephants of asia show and end.

Oh wait, I only took the tram once. The rest of the remaining time was spent chasing the tram behind with like 7 litres of water on my back. Yes, I mean literally chasing. Because there weren’t any seats left on the tram, so we just sent the old folks up and then yup, ran behind. Sweating like mad but we were laughing like hell while running. People must be thinking we are mad!

Going back, I drove back to Bukit Merah together with them (the rest took the coach bus) and ate the catered food there. Then continued on to Tiong Bahru plaza for some walking and buying of stuffs before fetching Jasmine to her new house, which I then went in to have a look! Nice house.

Now i’m in my room, extremely tired from all the running. It’s 7:43pm and my family still isn’t prepared to go for dinner. Will post the photo next time!

New toy to play with

After considering the iMac, I decided not to get it and got a desktop PC instead, since I decided I couldn’t bear to leave my beloved Windows 7 for Snow Leopard, and even if I could boot camp, it just isn’t worth getting the imac for aesthetic purpose only, after all it will go out of fashion some day and turn into some ugly piece of aluminium on my desk.

So, I got my PC from www.googoo.com.sg, the lazy man’s website.  A little pricier than SLS, but then again i’m lazy. The service has been excellent. I randomly configured the system and the sales guy has been very helpful. When my Belkin wireless N USB adapter couldn’t work, I sent them an email and they responded politely with their solution and offered to come down to my place to exchange the usb adapter. The timeline:

Placed my order on Friday at around 10am > Confirmation just an hour later or so, with a long email telling me what I chose was not compatible/recommended, made changes etc > Confirmation of delivery date which is on Tuesday 3pm > Made additional changes > Com delivered on Tuesday

So far so good, playing games on all max settings, first time! However my desk isn’t that nice now because there is a big black box with wires. Sooo yeah, a trade off with the iMac.

The horny baboons

Photo by Denyse Leong (not me not me not me)… the female baboon looks underage and the male baboon looks damn old.

I’m guessing the photo above is self-explanatory. A Baboon got horny and decided to have sex.

Sadly, I wasn’t there to witness it because I was, busy looking at something not so interesting. The Konso equipments and statues. Biggest regret today. The rest started to laugh so loudly that the baboon no longer had to mood to do ‘it’ and he just sat on the rock, with his erected baboon penis looking at us (I’ll put the pic here soon when I get it from Denyse).

Zoo was pretty fun, didn’t see the baboons the previous time I went there. And the zoo’s natural look really make me like it a lot, unlike the zoo tycoon games which I play, it’s all cages and stuffs.

Thanks to JS for the free zoo tickets !

Back online

The internet is back! Rejoice everyone. With the internet down I realised I was being extremely grumpy, not that I am addicted to the internet, but grumpy at Apple’s new firmware 3.1.2 actually removed tethering ability for Starhub users on the iphone. It worked previously, and then bam! It’s just gone. Stupid Apple.

Slotting my sim card into the Blackberry Bold for hope of tethering wasn’t… very friendly either. In other to tether, it seems like I need to spend a damn load of time doing it. And after configuring whatever needs to be configured (apparently I did it wrong), it couldn’t work! Probably due to the wrong “Starhub” settings I gotten online. Sigh. I need a simple software to just tether but it cost money. A lot of money.

Update: Heard Blackberry Desktop Manager 5 has tethering option! Will try it tomorrow.

Update 2: Yup, it’s damn easy to connect to the internet now via BB. I’m blogging from it now, and it’s faster than iPhone 3g tethering (since BB Bold is 3.5g).

Silky Ler

Oh hello. My name is Silky Ler Wan Wan, my 5th birthday is coming soon on the 24th of November. Would appreciate any form of birthday presents. Balls, treats, cockroaches, lizards, bak kwa or even an Ikea toy to hump on (preferably in a crocodile shape for example, something long and slim).

You should know where I live.

Reading The Economist

“The Economist” – the best newsmagazine. And i’m serious about it. TIME has failed me for the entire subscription period such that, most of it goes unread whenever I receive it. Newsweek is reasonable but it has still far too much US-related content in it (which i’m not very interested about). Economist has just the right amount of information, splitting news into different continents. Very good read, I like it. I am no longer subscribing to TIME and awaiting my Newsweek subscription to end.

Every Friday when I receive the magazine, I will open it and start to read a little of it, day by day (mostly in the toilet!).

PS: I just ate so much, 2 sausages, 2 sunny eggs and noodles. I don’t think i’m going to eat dinner tonight. WHYYY did I eat so muchhhhh.

Jumbo & Marina Barrage

Had a great time with my family for the night. I was left with nowhere to go after Shaun Tham abandoned our GETS outing today. And I have to apologise to Mr Ben Lee for not going for his movie screening at Simon’s place because well, I had to go out with my family.

First, we had our dinner at Jumbo, East Coast Seafood Centre, we had a seat by the sea, which was in the dark, away from the disgusting bright lights. Had my favourite deer meat & kang kong… aka ‘the usual’. Drunken prawns, two chilli crabs, with erm 12 ‘man tous’ in total I think, and accompanying it, beer.

After dinner, the night was spent at Marina Barrage (my first time being there btw). Dark at night, seems to be a romantic place, and with lots of water… how nice if there is a swimming pool in the ‘pump house’.

Went home, played with my woof woof which was high, as she was barking at this long crocodile toy we got from Ikea and wanted to hump it.