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i can still remember the frustration when, after running a program which took ages to compile, i have to re-compile it because i either a) misspelled a variable; b) overlooked some simple logic; or c) made some really stupid mistake that i shouldn’t have made in the first place.man. those were the days.(image from xkcd.com)
i had thought of a few things that i wanted to write about, but they have since flew out of my head. so i shall just do up a boring entry on what i did yesterday.met up with suz, her friend, and teddy and we went to this nice, quaint (though a tad rather pretentious, ...
hellos! if any of you have a tumblr account, please let me know! am looking for more people to follow. heehee.i have a twitter account too, but i think tumblr is more my cup of tea, as 1) i don’t feel the overwhelming need to update the world on my current status, on whether i ...
am at my new place now. spent most of the afternoon unpacking and rearranging my stuff. i totally had NO IDEA i had so much stuff!! omg. and i don’t even shop often, i can’t imagine how much stuff i would have accumulated if i did. hurhur.webcammed with the best friend just now, and turned ...
so yesterday, something (not very good) happened at home. but i don’t exactly feel anything. well, i got off pretty lightly, considering, but my housemate is still quite traumatized.sometimes i think i can be quite… devoid of emotion. when unexpected things happen, good or bad, i kinda accept them without batting so much as an ...
i don’t know what it was like in old baghdad, but our whole economy is built on people workingwhy must people work, master?well, to make a living.and then?and then, well, one day they hope to work long enough so they can save up enough money to retire.and then?and then they can stop working.–from “i dream ...
“Bombing cannot divide the Hindus and Muslims, it never succeeded and people should know that it is not going to work,” Sohail Illyas, a Muslim man who lives in the walled city, said after …
this is like my new time-waster. heh heh.anyways. i re-read the entry i wrote yesterday and damn, it was exactly the kind of blog post that i hate to read — morose, depressing, and full of self-pity. hurhurhur. but not to worry! the sunshine’s back, the rain’s gone and i have caught my rainbow (actually ...
i’m not sure if anyone’s noticed, but it seems that singaporeans like to substitute the word “reply” with the technically unsuitable (and awkward?) “revert” — as in they write “please revert by monday” instead of “please reply by monday”. (revert to what??)it never fails to amuse me, for it seems that the …
i told shoko that i wanted to eat some nice cakes so the next day (sunday), we arranged to meet at ginza cos she said that one of her favourite bakeries is located in ginza.while waiting for her, i took these shots:this is the bakery that she brought me to — i like the decor! ...
this is in response to equinox’s post on nominalization in korean…so far i’ve learnt 3 ways of nominalization.. maybe there are more but i haven’t learnt them yet ^ …
i have a new hero.“When it’s over, I will just walk out the front door, take my wallet, my passport and start a new life,”i would love to one day do what he did — or will be doing, rather — (well, maybe not auction off my life, but just take off with my wallet ...
so you know that you have definitely caught the winds of change when life starts presenting you with different options–all at the same time.i was never an advocate of any form of life-planning, or even long-term planning, for i have learnt that life is like an aggressive force that tends to push you along–the best ...
i still remember the first time i travelled alone, without the company of my parents or friends. my destination wasn’t anywhere near; it was more than a 12-hour flight away, and i was going to be there for 5 months — not a long time, but not short either. it was the first time i ...
so i spent a few hours last night tinkering with my new toy, dragging and dropping applications, application preferences and documents over the wireless network from my powerbook and customizing the interface (my dock goes on the bottom left of the screen, and my desktop icons have to be small, with their labels and information ...
i used to dream of owning a car, a home–things that most people would want to own.as i started packing a little yesterday, i realized that i’ve lost the desire to own anything that would tie me down to any one place.when i first moved in to my current place, i refrained from buying any ...
monday, we took a river cruise tour on the thames all the way up to greenwich, where the greenwich meridian line is.the london eyethe greenwich time line“prime meridian of the world”we climbed up a hill to get to the observatorybeautiful skies… couldn’t stop taking pictures of it.well this was the day where dan expressed his ...
equinox landed in korea this morning, and sent me a message on msn, saying that he’s in the mcdonald’s near hyehwa station, and i was like hey! that’s near my office! and asked him what he was doing there.“special delivery,” he said cryptically.but since i couldn’t leave the office for too long, i gave him ...
yesterday, boss2 told me that the day before, he had smacked his daughter’s palm because she refused to stop crying, and consequently, she has been ignoring him since then, till today.so the day it happened, he says that his daughter only called for mummy and not daddy, and when he asked for a kiss she ...
met up with LX and roy after work yesterday, walked around itaewon a bit cos LX wanted to see what it was like, then headed off to dongdaemun to meet her korean friend’s brother, her other colleague louis and his gf.went into doota’s daiso to get some stuff for her house, then louis drove us ...
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