i'm WIRELESS!!!!
ok so i'm later than the rest of the techy population by light years but better late than never yea?
my laptop is 7 years old (!)
so obviously there's no wireless thingy on it.
in fact it's so wired even the CD rom is USB based,
which makes formatting my laptop a very interesting task.
because installing an OS uses a bootup CD.
but my USB CD drive needs the OS to activate the USB.
so no OS, no USB.
but no USB, also no OS.
and that's the story of how Henry spent 2 days (and nights) trying to find out how to install WinXP on my laptop.
wow i can't believe my laptop is 7 years old.
it's still working well too.
it's original hard disk space was only 10GB,
not even enough to install WinXP.
some mp3 players these days are already 10GB. hmmm.
henry popped by again today and wireless-ed up my house.
my laptop is completely mobile now.
i can even surf in the toilet if i want to do that.
i used to think it's painful to tear apart the PC to install the wireless card.
but now they have USB wireless adapters!
wow....you can just about get anything these days.
you can even get power extension cords with 7 plugs.
which henry promptly bought and subsequently blew up the fuse from his room.
"i just caused a blackout." he msged me at 2am. "the power point in my room's not working. now i need to get an extension cord to wire the fan in."
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i've gone wireless with my mp3 too.
bought a 2 GB SD card to dump many songs into my phone.
so now i'm bluetoothing songs to my wireless stereo headset.
i can now juggle pocketless-ly!
yay!
i think the phone's not really designed to play 2 GB's worth of songs though.
oh well...
----------------------------------
it's been an exciting few days.
i'm freshly inspired by a lot of financial planning/investment stuff.
there's so much to learn and so much to read.
some japanese buskers are coming in on wed and thurs.
street performances going on as part of NDP.
looking forward to checking them out.
japanese entertainers are usually creative and quirky.
i just bought $50 worth of Osram lighted balls last week.
Darren told me about them and very kindly emailed me the web-link with a list of the shop branches all over singapore.
following his list, i excitedly popped by Funan (shop closed down), and then plaza sin (shop moved a year ago) before i got exasperated.
("is the webmaster Darren?" Di-hong laughed. "i think it is!!" i sms-ed Di-hong after the plaza sin trip. "actually the webmaster is me" he sms-ed back.)
anyway i finally tracked down the shop. i've been obsessed with the balls ever since he told me abt them.
the balls look BEAUTIFUL. mesmerizing. i don't know why normal pple would buy them, but these are the prettiest and cheapest lighted juggling balls i've seen.
the only big disadvantage is that since the balls are not meant to be juggled (i don't know what they're meant to be used for), they're too big, too smooth, too light and too fragile.
in fact i broke one ball 2 minutes after getting it out of the box and juggling it.
it was quite easily fixed by superglue, but there is a real fear of dropping.
Discussion with Di-hong on how to modify the balls to make them juggle-able:
"i think we should wrap some rubber latex material round it. for grip", i suggested.
"balloons?"
"yeah but must be transparent otherwise block the light. i think can use condoms?"
"don't get the flavored ones. and they must be quite big to cover the whole ball."
"actually i think should get the smallest ones. so that the ball battery cover is stretched in place"
"smallest ones...hmmm..." he mulled.
"yeah. maybe ask for sizes for 11 year olds."
"i think the cashier will call the police"
----------------------------------------
i was with some female colleagues the other day and we started discussing about cute guys at work.
after thinking very hard (there's almost none) we started converging to one guy.
"wait are we talking about the same guy?"
"Must be la. there aren't that many cute guys!"
5 min into the duscussion and the very resourceful ladies dispatched a person to find out about the guy's background.
since i'm the only unmarried one in the group, i became the target of this matchmaking conspiracy.
2 hours later...
"he's local. 26. single and available! the next round i should be able to get his number! when i see him walking around next time i'll message you to come over!"
they're a lot more excited than i am
and they seem more interested in his number and background than i am.
i don't really care playing along but the news/rumours seem to be spreading......hmmm...
------------------------------
i had a ticket to the NDP preview the last week.
usually i'm not big on NDPs.
squeezing with the crowd is a nightmare and somemore it's always ONE ticket so you're squeezing and waiting with the crowd alone.
i went this year though.
wanted to catch the first marina bay show.
and i heard much about the goody bag fan.
and there's poi in the show too.
the fan is really something.
it's a normal handheld fan, running on batteries and 2 blades spinning to generate wind.
but there're LEDs on one blade so when the fan is on, words start to form.
it really looks quite cool.
like the fan is talking to you.
one day they'll start broadcasting news on the fan.
DOW Jones index and ST index news scrolling round while you fan yourself.
-------------------------
i found the NDP show quite boring actually.
it reminded me of North Korea's dictator celebrations, with the masses doing some dance and display.
i was hoping it'll make me feel patriotic like the last one i went to did.
but it was more a spectator show and you don't get involved much.
i may be biased because the last one i went to was the one i was a crowd-warmer for.
that one was really quite special. (it's the one with the steph sun song and mass dance)
something about the show was very touching and filled one up with patriotism.
i was at the NE show, the preview and the actual thing and enjoyed every one of them.
our batch of crowdwarmers was also a lot more enthusiastic i thought.
we really went out to enjoy ourselves and infect the crowd with our energy.
ahh the memories.
of how we danced in the rain and strangers offered us ponchos.
of how an auntie offered me a plastic bag so i can sit down without dirtying my white nurse costume.
of exchanging name cards at the VIP section.
of juggling in the MPs holding area and then for the First Lady at the gallery
i looked at the crowdwarmers this year and smiled at the outrageous costumes they had to wear.
Lucky not our year.
the warmers for my section weren't very enthusiastic so that's a pity.
------------------
the pre-parade entertainment showcased all of singapore's talents.
including the inspiring Dim sum dollies.
(pam oei always cracks me up.)
i looked at the stage and it looks so right to have a juggler on it.
i can imagine someone doing a juggling routine up there and it'll fit right in.
perhaps someday.
time to log off my wireless laptop and get some wireless rest.
------------------------
ok so i'm later than the rest of the techy population by light years but better late than never yea?
my laptop is 7 years old (!)
so obviously there's no wireless thingy on it.
in fact it's so wired even the CD rom is USB based,
which makes formatting my laptop a very interesting task.
because installing an OS uses a bootup CD.
but my USB CD drive needs the OS to activate the USB.
so no OS, no USB.
but no USB, also no OS.
and that's the story of how Henry spent 2 days (and nights) trying to find out how to install WinXP on my laptop.
wow i can't believe my laptop is 7 years old.
it's still working well too.
it's original hard disk space was only 10GB,
not even enough to install WinXP.
some mp3 players these days are already 10GB. hmmm.
henry popped by again today and wireless-ed up my house.
my laptop is completely mobile now.
i can even surf in the toilet if i want to do that.
i used to think it's painful to tear apart the PC to install the wireless card.
but now they have USB wireless adapters!
wow....you can just about get anything these days.
you can even get power extension cords with 7 plugs.
which henry promptly bought and subsequently blew up the fuse from his room.
"i just caused a blackout." he msged me at 2am. "the power point in my room's not working. now i need to get an extension cord to wire the fan in."
----------------------------------
i've gone wireless with my mp3 too.
bought a 2 GB SD card to dump many songs into my phone.
so now i'm bluetoothing songs to my wireless stereo headset.
i can now juggle pocketless-ly!
yay!
i think the phone's not really designed to play 2 GB's worth of songs though.
oh well...
----------------------------------
it's been an exciting few days.
i'm freshly inspired by a lot of financial planning/investment stuff.
there's so much to learn and so much to read.
some japanese buskers are coming in on wed and thurs.
street performances going on as part of NDP.
looking forward to checking them out.
japanese entertainers are usually creative and quirky.
i just bought $50 worth of Osram lighted balls last week.
Darren told me about them and very kindly emailed me the web-link with a list of the shop branches all over singapore.
following his list, i excitedly popped by Funan (shop closed down), and then plaza sin (shop moved a year ago) before i got exasperated.
("is the webmaster Darren?" Di-hong laughed. "i think it is!!" i sms-ed Di-hong after the plaza sin trip. "actually the webmaster is me" he sms-ed back.)
anyway i finally tracked down the shop. i've been obsessed with the balls ever since he told me abt them.
the balls look BEAUTIFUL. mesmerizing. i don't know why normal pple would buy them, but these are the prettiest and cheapest lighted juggling balls i've seen.
the only big disadvantage is that since the balls are not meant to be juggled (i don't know what they're meant to be used for), they're too big, too smooth, too light and too fragile.
in fact i broke one ball 2 minutes after getting it out of the box and juggling it.
it was quite easily fixed by superglue, but there is a real fear of dropping.
Discussion with Di-hong on how to modify the balls to make them juggle-able:
"i think we should wrap some rubber latex material round it. for grip", i suggested.
"balloons?"
"yeah but must be transparent otherwise block the light. i think can use condoms?"
"don't get the flavored ones. and they must be quite big to cover the whole ball."
"actually i think should get the smallest ones. so that the ball battery cover is stretched in place"
"smallest ones...hmmm..." he mulled.
"yeah. maybe ask for sizes for 11 year olds."
"i think the cashier will call the police"
----------------------------------------
i was with some female colleagues the other day and we started discussing about cute guys at work.
after thinking very hard (there's almost none) we started converging to one guy.
"wait are we talking about the same guy?"
"Must be la. there aren't that many cute guys!"
5 min into the duscussion and the very resourceful ladies dispatched a person to find out about the guy's background.
since i'm the only unmarried one in the group, i became the target of this matchmaking conspiracy.
2 hours later...
"he's local. 26. single and available! the next round i should be able to get his number! when i see him walking around next time i'll message you to come over!"
they're a lot more excited than i am
and they seem more interested in his number and background than i am.
i don't really care playing along but the news/rumours seem to be spreading......hmmm...
------------------------------
i had a ticket to the NDP preview the last week.
usually i'm not big on NDPs.
squeezing with the crowd is a nightmare and somemore it's always ONE ticket so you're squeezing and waiting with the crowd alone.
i went this year though.
wanted to catch the first marina bay show.
and i heard much about the goody bag fan.
and there's poi in the show too.
the fan is really something.
it's a normal handheld fan, running on batteries and 2 blades spinning to generate wind.
but there're LEDs on one blade so when the fan is on, words start to form.
it really looks quite cool.
like the fan is talking to you.
one day they'll start broadcasting news on the fan.
DOW Jones index and ST index news scrolling round while you fan yourself.
-------------------------
i found the NDP show quite boring actually.
it reminded me of North Korea's dictator celebrations, with the masses doing some dance and display.
i was hoping it'll make me feel patriotic like the last one i went to did.
but it was more a spectator show and you don't get involved much.
i may be biased because the last one i went to was the one i was a crowd-warmer for.
that one was really quite special. (it's the one with the steph sun song and mass dance)
something about the show was very touching and filled one up with patriotism.
i was at the NE show, the preview and the actual thing and enjoyed every one of them.
our batch of crowdwarmers was also a lot more enthusiastic i thought.
we really went out to enjoy ourselves and infect the crowd with our energy.
ahh the memories.
of how we danced in the rain and strangers offered us ponchos.
of how an auntie offered me a plastic bag so i can sit down without dirtying my white nurse costume.
of exchanging name cards at the VIP section.
of juggling in the MPs holding area and then for the First Lady at the gallery
i looked at the crowdwarmers this year and smiled at the outrageous costumes they had to wear.
Lucky not our year.
the warmers for my section weren't very enthusiastic so that's a pity.
------------------
the pre-parade entertainment showcased all of singapore's talents.
including the inspiring Dim sum dollies.
(pam oei always cracks me up.)
i looked at the stage and it looks so right to have a juggler on it.
i can imagine someone doing a juggling routine up there and it'll fit right in.
perhaps someday.
time to log off my wireless laptop and get some wireless rest.
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