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the email that i sent out last night proved effective, i got a call from them in the morning just when i reached office.

the call was followed by a few ping pongs via email between both parties and they finally woke up their idea after i made it obvious that i was about to terminate their services.

i’m still getting 16 ips from them but the total cost per month is reduced by almost 50% of their original price.

i’ve won the battle!

been super busy for the past few days, didn’t find enough time to sleep let alone blogging.

it’s weekend now so i finally get sometime for myself, have to catch up with my posts and my games.

luck has been good lately although my right eye kept twitching, some sweeper found my wallet and returned it to my maid the next morning. everything was intact cept for my atm cards, debit cards, ezlink card and cash.

those luckily, can be replaced but i’m temporary cashless cause i can’t draw out any cash without my cards until the bank sends me the replacement.

however, i realised after a few hours from my internet banking that someone has used my debit card to make a few purchases in seng shiong for $89. made a police report immediately and hope they catch the idiot who used it, oh well…at least money can earn back.

settled the employment with my new company, supposed to start work on the 15th june and get a full month’s salary but my japan trip was postponed 1 week later so i can now only start work after the 23rd of june.

had meetings after meetings yesterday and had pizza for lunch again, finally settled on a lot of outstanding issues and i think things are looking up for us, i would say the current team is a strong team and i hope we’ll go far together.

left office early yesterday and went down to simlim square to get some parts for some computers in the company and then went down to orchard paragon for dinner.

charlie wanted to take some pictures of the touchscreen stands in the m1 shop, he needed more ideas before he can draw out a final design for our stands.

had dinner at spaghettis, been a long time since i last ate there, i think it was with adree and kai some years back.

also met up with christ, an ex-colleague from sun microsystems, to collect a red bomb.

a red bomb also meant a wedding invitation.

went back after that and played a little maple, got sick of my bandit and decided to start on a warrior instead.

the server went offline within 30 minutes since it was already late and i decided to go sleep, i need to catch up with my sleep.

as for today, i actually wanted to sleep into the afternoon but found myself awake at 10am, answered some emails and played a little game before having lunch at home.

felt a little sleepy after lunch and decided to take a short nap but the next thing i knew, it was already dark at 9pm.

played a little game but the server was terribly lagged so decided to bring my laptop down to blog.

i think i found a way to run a maple story server on my home computer, will try it tomorrow since i’m not really in the mood today.

trond’s flying off to shanghai tonight to visit his girl, how i wish i could fly anytime i want and get away from everything once a while.

intended to wake up early to finish up the powerpoint presentation but only managed to wake up at 12pm.

got hengyu to come over to my place in the afternoon to help me with the designs and powerpoint.

only managed to finish up the outdoor lcd presentation, got stuck while doing the touchscreen, my mind just went blank and can’t seem to think of anything.

it was 6pm before i realised and had a quick dinner…

i somehow managed to fall asleep on my keyboard and when i woke up at 9pm, my whole keyboard was flooded with drool, had to spend the next 20 minutes drying up my microsoft reclusa, thank goodness it was still able to work!

watched a little television, did some work and before i realise it, it’s almost 2am now.

better finish up fast and get to bed for a major day tomorrow.

and just like that, another holiday has flew pass, didn’t even have the time to fix up my mom’s computer or have some time for my games.

i’ve not even started work yet…

p/s: special special special thanks to hengyu for helping me with the designs and slides

p/p/s: special thanks to robbie for helping me with the last minute printing of stickers

p/p/p/s: special thanks to my god brother yiteng for commenting on my slides and giving me ideas that i can’t do.

didn’t managed to wake up till 2pm and got a lift from my mom to imm,

was supposed to help colin send his o2 atom exec for repairs but turned out that the service center has moved to haw paw center in orchard.

junling called while i was still at the service center and asked if he should repair his laptop’s lcd screen for s$600.

that’s the fucking problem with hp and compaq, once the warranty is up, they’ll charge you ridicules amount for repairs and replacement.

and that’s not all, if you send your laptop/pc in for diagnostic and then decide not to fix it, you are still liable to pay a sum of s$120.

for this alone, i promise myself that i will never get a compaq or hp laptop ever…

anyway, i told him that s$600 was a huge sum to pay for that tiny lcd screen but since he has already spent so much on the laptop, he can either trade in his laptop and get a cheaper model during the next computer fair or just pay the s$600.

i knew that wasn’t much help but i can’t give make the decision for him, it’s too much responsibility on my end.

the weather was hot and i was too lazy to walk to take a bus (my leg hurts) so took a cab down to somewhere near my place for a haircut.

i grew up cutting hair at this particular saloon but it has been sometime since i last visited it, my old favourite hairdresser was still around so i requested for him,

he still has some appointments so i had to wait for an hour for him to finish up, i just can’t seem to trust my hair with the other hairdressers.

didn’t want to explain much on how i wanted my hair to be so i just told him i was going back for reservist and asked him to do the rest.

somehow it turned out well but my white hair is really terrible, will have to get my maid to dye for me soon, dying in saloons is just too costly since i’m not working now.

walked all the way back and took a long cold bath and realised it was already 6, trond was picking me up for dinner since he wanted to discuss some matters with me.

i had actually wanted to discuss with him over the details of my job but i just don’t know how to phrase it.

he wants me to help him get his new network up starting from this month but there was nothing about being paid for the help or starting work earlier…and i don’t really know how to say it.

the problem with rich people is that they think too little of money, for people like me who are usually poor, money is our bread and water, no money means tomorrow no food to eat.

i did tell him that i would like his company to up s$200 from the pay they offered me but all he said was “wah lao $200 only, why so money minded”

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he wants me to help him during the exhibition this week for 3 days and when i asked if i was gonna be paid for it…he calmly replies “no of course not”.

sigh.

anyway, had dinner at ichiban sushi at imm, fully paid by trond.

maybe his way of paying me is to buy me food…

went to some void deck to discuss more about his plans before going to meet fudgie and fish for supper.

that’ll be the next post.

trond called in the afternoon and asked if i can help him with a small project on board a ship that’s going to dock in singapore for 16 hours.

my job is just to reinstall windows xp and fix up the network for the same computer.

since i’m free and the pay’s good, i agreed and was to be on standby, waiting for the ship to reach singapore.

managed to get my neighbour to send me over to thomas’ place to pass him the laptop, at least i fixed something right for today,

went to the coffee shop for some drinks before leaving.

as it turns out, my neighbour knows thomas’ friends who are also in the area, small world eh?

went over to taman jurong for supper but i didn’t quite like the food there so we adjourned to boon lay nasi lemak instead.

the queue was crazy so ended up buying food from another stall,

met aaron for a while, he was also having supper there with 2 of his friends…

the girl was friendly thought

my neighbour’s wife wanted to eat as well so we ended up packeting back to his place.

his whole house was still awake so it’s kinda awkward since my mom is not on good terms with his wife and mother-in-law.

tried fixing his computer but it was beyond hope, the motherboard has decided to make a journey to the scrapyard.

told him to bring it to sim lim square on monday and i’ll to get it fixed for him.

went back to my own house to have a lonely supper, no wii-ing tonight, gotta work in trond’s father’s company tomorrow as well.

hope i can wake up in time,

morning call anyone?

yeah it’s monday…

another week older, sigh

another week gone,

another week wasted,

another week doing nothing,

another week waiting for my legs to recover.

how exciting!

duh…

was supposed to pay a visit to my aunt’s specialist for my legs but she couldn’t make it so didn’t go,

but yet i woke up damn early, mom was bitching about the long queue for resetting the singpass so didn’t give any excuses for sleeping later just in case her mamapause comes back.

turns out there was no queue at all, got my singpass within 5 minutes and went to uob to open the cpf investment account.

again no queue and managed to get the account opened within 10 minutes…

the guy serving me was more interested in my iphone than doing his paperwork, bah!

couldn’t decided what to have to breakfast/lunch, skipped 3 coffee shops cause the food wasn’t to my liking, my mom refused to have kfc and long john silver and delifrance were still serving breakfast so we settled for the food court at jurong entertainment center.

all of us (including my maid) had yong tao hu which tasted rather awful and ice kachang to wash it down.

went for a shopping spree at the nearby ntuc and ended buying loads of stuffs…

wanted to go down to chai chee to visit the other chinese sinseh that one of my readers have recommended but my maid commented that the princess at home was going to be hungry so that was no go,

welcome to my world, where my dog has priority over me, a living human.

and so my adventures of the day ended.

spent the rest of the day installing the webtorrent which still can’t work and slept the rest of it off.

sleeping is good for recovering, someone once said…

somehow i’ve been using that lame excuse far too many times of recent.

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mom also commented about moving house, i actually lost count how many times she mentioned it but never got to the point of really looking for another place.

she suggested lake point condo, which i have visited before many years back.

it’s old (finished building in 1983) but the apartments there are rather huge…we’re talking about 2000 to 3000 square feet.

price was somehow cheaper than the newer condos around the area and i rather like the place, being huge and very near to the mrt station…and of course a swimming pool!

i love swimming!

oh well, let’s hope it will really happen this time.

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also commented about looking for a new job and her mamapause reached level 5, she wants me to concentrate on my studies for the rest of the year but when i asked if she was going to pay for all my bills, i could almost enjoy the 5 minutes of golden silence.

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finally started sending out my resumes, actually only to 1 company…starhub.

colin found a job opening in the fraud department and told me to give it a try,

being blur from waking up from my afternoon nap, i simply clicked “email to a friend” and keyed in my own email address and sent the resume to myself.

duh!

luckily colin wasn’t daydreaming when i mentioned “i’ve email them my resume” and he told me there wasn’t any email address to send my resume to.

oh well, at least it’s over now.

i’m still praying hard for the 8toinfinity job but only time will tell if i get it, hopes aren’t that high anymore.

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and here i am now, at my void deck blogging from my laptop waiting for time to pass me by…

yet another monday has passed,

rather exciting one, don’t you agree?

in just a blink of an eye, yet another week has come and gone…this makes it 1 full month since i got my first leg injury from badminton.

woke up late in the afternoon since i slept very late early (10am) yesterday, caught up with the recent episodes of naruto and bleach, i still can’t believe i actually forgot about downloading them till saturday.

wanted to go to the i.t. fair since it was the last day but my legs were still in no condition to make it there so gave up on the idea.

was getting really bored at home but luckily for me,  aaron was fast in doing his homework so he accompanied me out to the coffeeshop again for garlic bread.

ordered some "tim sum" and fries to go with the garlic bread but the bread didn’t taste as good as the previous times, too soft.

went to the nearby petrol kiosk to grab some titbits before going over to my block’s void deck to chill out.

tried calling andee just now but weren’t any answer, just wanted to ask if he did break a leg or something,

keeping my fingers crossed he did… 

i think i’m evil!

mark (ng) bought prata for fudgie and myself while fudgie bought 2 big bottles of drinks from the nearby petrol station.

had the same mushroom cheese prata 2 nights in a roll, sinful but irresistible…it’s just taste heaven!

all of us then shared a large tub of ben & jerry’s chocolate fudge brownie, another sinful act but was very nice although i still prefer turtle soup.

since it was already quite late, we decided to stay till the morning…and we started chatting,

till almost 9am before deciding to go home…

before i decided to go home.

i had to, cause i was having a major high tide and i don’t wanna walk to the coffeeshop.

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mark bought his new domain for his blog, markng.org

sounds much better than the dope domains they originally wanted.

it’s 11am now and time for bed.

good nite.

another week has passed since i first injured my left leg during badminton,

still showing no signs of recovering, hopefully will be able to get my mom to get the “tie da” medical oil tomorrow and get my maid to start massaging for me.

the stupid specialist clinic from the hospital has also yet to call me up to fix an appointment for my broken right leg, hopefully will be able to hear some good news from the specialist, don’t really wanna spend 4 months in a cast.

will also need to call up my school and tell them i’ll not be able to make it for lessons till further notice, hopefully they won’t penalise me much on attendance.

i also need to call my brother up and hopefully fix a time to meet him to discuss about my business plans with teck kin, main problem i foresee now will be the funding of the capital.

hopefully i’ll be able to get everything done by tomorrow evening latest, then i’ll be able to rest in peace in a better state of mind.

blogging now on my laptop from the void deck of my block, waiting for fudgie and mark to pay me a visit, it hasn’t been a long day though, slept through most of the day.

think i’m turning nocturnal…something my mom won’t be very pleased with.

even thought my leg was still hurting (the pain got worse), i was feeling hungry and my maid didn’t cook cause there was nothing to cook so decided to go out for dinner.

fudgie was kind enough to volunteer to accompany me and i also managed to get colin (low), simon (koh), anthony (tan) and zhili (aka smile) to come along as well.

luckily simon came along so he picked fudgie and me up from my place, didn’t have to walk so far…

zhili “put aeroplane” last minute (as usual) so it was just the 5 of us,

had fish soup and noodles from separate stalls and had a tummy ache after eating,

had to limp to the hawker center toilet some distance away since the coffeeshop we were at only had the squatting toilet.

it was hard for me in my present state to even sit, let alone squat.

took me like 5 minutes just to limp to the toilet where on normal days i could probably reach there in 30 seconds or less.

went for bubble tea after that and sat down to chit chat before simon sent all of us back.

leg’s still hurting now so i’ll only decide if i will go to work when i wake up tomorrow.

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on a separate issue, joyce called me to ask if jacky was a good interior designer cause she has never seen his work. she also asked jacky to let her view one of the houses he has done before but was kept waiting for sometime.

somehow i can understand both parties point of view,

for jacky, it’s going to be tough getting previous clients to let joyce view their houses since their houses has already been done up. i , for 1, will never let my contractor do such stuff.

for joyce, she has never seen his work yet so she doesn’t trust his designs as yet.

hopefully, they will come to a compromise soon on this issue, both parties are good friends so i hope it turns out well.