Belle & Sebastian - 'You Made Me Forget My Dreams'

Album: Push Barman To Open Old Wounds



I have remembered me.

Yes, I'd first started hankering after the Eee PC last year when it came out; then I'd held out for the 12gb when I'd read about it rather than get the 8gb model (which was unavailable at the IT Show earlier this year).

Then. Then I read about the MSI Wind and, wouldn't ya know it - it has better specs than even the Eee PC901! So I changed my mind and decided I wanted the MSI Wind.

Until now, today, when I stepped in to my work place to find the building atrium set up for the Eee PC 901/1000H launch this weekend.

Curse you, pre-launch hype!

Oh man ... I'm so tempted to plonk down money for the Eee Box B202. Or the Eee PC 901/1000H.

Or both.

Let's consider the Eee Box deal (XP OS, 1gb RAM, 80gb HDD): SGD 439 (including tax) and they'll throw in a wired keyboard and mouse; SGD 699 for the Eee Box B202 and 19" LCD monitor bundle.

The lack of an optical drive is a little irritating, but with 4 USB ports, I can always dig up my old external CD-burner to plug in.

Played with a 901 just now - the keyboard and mousepad are irritating, but it could just be my fat calloused fingers.

How?

Howl!

eels - 'Not Ready Yet'

Album: Oh What A Beautiful Morning



Argh.

Tired, and sore and achey: Not a good combination.

Still - there's pole prac tomorrow ...

Shibani Kashyap - 'Tum Bas Tum'

Album: Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II OST



I spend 5 days a week in the office, and all I have to look forward to is Saturday where I can sleep in, and - most importantly - have my pole class and pole prac. But the boss is taking that away from me next month, when I'll already be missing a class and practice session due to some stupid public holiday that falls unfortunately on a Saturday (and for which we're not compensated with a holiday on the following Monday)!

Oh, cruel and unusual punishment is this!

=(

The sound of you sleeping

What is wrong with everybody? Is it something in the water or in the air? Everybody, from my colleagues (including my financial controller) to my cleaning auntie to the co-teacher of my pole class, has been asking if I had a boyfriend; and when I tell them 'no', all of them offered to introduce me to someone.

What, is it now a crime to be single in your late twenties? Even if I were single, it does not mean I'd be opened to being match-made.

If my boss offered that, I'm gonna go try out my luck at the lottery.

Shivaree - 'Flycatcher'

Album: Rough Dreams



Man, I'm exhausted, and a headache is waiting to take over my head. I need to repay my sleep debt, but it doesn't seem like I'd be able to this weekend.

The boss will be in town for most of next week (sigh) and I won't be able to slack off as much.

Can I please be allowed to pay back my sleep debt over a week, instead of over the weekend?

Discovered a couple days ago that boss is ... Jedi. What his philosophy is, and what he'd preached to me before was basically Yoda's "Try not. Do or do not, there is no try."

=|

So tired am dizzy again.

I miss you, baby ...

=(

The sound of you sleeping

Time-lines floated in to my head awhile ago - vague ones which I got from counting backwards.

It's time to start, again.

Geography quiz! Test me, test me! I spent nearly 8 hours in the office today doing the quizzes over and over again so I could learn where countries are. I'm good on US states and capitals, South American countries, Asian states and capitals, and European states (still iffy on the capitals, especially those in eastern Europe); I'm still learning my countries in Africa (never mind the capitals).

I actually spent a couple of nights in 2002 memorizing the map of Asia for ASIA 101, but until yesterday, I could remember nothing ...

Education is wasted on me.

=(

The sound of you sleeping

Yet another late night. How is it that I never manage to go to bed before 23:00?

I'm mad about geography today!

Maximilian Hecker - 'Rose'

Album: Rose



Class was good today, until Linna brought up the 'p' word - maybe it was just in passing. Think I'll prolly go back to exotic after my stylings course end; the only thing about jazz I really fancy is its strenuous warm-ups.

Researched on NZD FDs today; prognosis: No good - NZ's likely headed for recession ahead of the US (went through a 20-page thread and a few articles on this) and won't recover anytime soon. Good time to buy in though. Maybe I should look into the AUD tomorrow - just read that "[t]he Australian dollar rose to near a 25-year high as prices of the nation's iron ore and coal exports climbed to records."

Feel mopey tonight, and this is good moping music.

Corinne Bailey Rae - 'Put Your Records On'

Album: Corinne Bailey Rae



Tomorrow in the office, I'll set up a spreadsheet to compare FCFD interest and buying/selling rates for the NZD; hopefully by Saturday, I'd have set one up.

Spoke to my Dad just now about it, and, not only was he very helpful in providing information on which bank has the best rates overall, he said he'd prolly put in some money with mine so we could get the second tier interest rates.

Honestly, I don't really know what I'm doing, and I'm a little scared about tying most of my money up like that - I know I'd feel more secure with a little more cash on hand - but that extra cash's gonna be sitting in my savings account doing squat, so I might as well make it work a little for me, right?

We were taught a rotating trick called 'cyclone'. Damn, it's hard.

Linna assured us it's a difficult rotating trick, and we'd get bruises on our armpits practising that trick.

Well, I have a huge patch of red (from friction burn) very near my armpit - I must be doing something right ... Right?

Lizzy the Lezzy does Gay Israel!

Got a notification in my inbox today (I subscribe!):

Lizzy: "Are they many gays in Jerusalem?"

Shaun in Jerusalem: "Well ... Between all the Rabbis, the Priests and the Imans, I don't think any man's ever touched a woman in this city."

"Apart from getting blowjobs gays can get any job they like in Israel." LMAO! XD



P/S I ♥ YOU LIZZY!