There isn't much a recovering convalescent can do in this bloody hot weather at home except to sleep it off. But it's too hot right now to even do that! (it's 33 degrees C outside). Everything seems to have come to a total standstill around the house. Nobody really wants to do anything; it's as if the heat has stymied all thoughts and movements.
So here I am, hanging around the net for no particular reason. Actually I'm fussing over the playlists/ ratings of the songs I have on iTunes so that everything can be categorised properly into the iPod. It's hard work I tell you, rating so many songs.
It's almost 3 in the afternoon, and it's absolutely blazing outside. Ihad wanted to go check out the Adidas Warehouse Sale in town but I don't think so now.
If only there is better tv programming on weekends!
oh god! i'm deformed!
My eyes are bloody swollen after taking antibiotics prescribed by my doctor on account of my dry hacking cough. It was horrible trying to get to sleep last night. I woke up and startled at the sight of my puffy swollen eyes in the mirror. It was so gross; it was almost fascinating! (yes i know that sounds a little too macabre) I almost wanted to take a picture of it, except that I was way too freaked out.
It turns out that I have an allergy to amoxil or the penicillin family. But that doesn't sound right. Penicillin is so widely available that I must have had some previously! It's Penicillin, for crying out loud!
Anyways, the puffiness and swollenness have gone down substantially. Hopefully it will all clear up soon so that I can go out for some fresh air. I've been cooped in the house for close to 3 days!
It seems like there's nothing much to write about and when that happens?...
It's quiz time! (Thanks,
David!)
You're The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
by Douglas Adams
Considered by many to be one of the funniest people around, you are
quite an entertainer. You've also traveled to the far reaches of what you deem possible,
often confused and unsure of yourself. Life continues to jostle you around like a marble,
but it's shown you so much of the world that you don't care. Wacky adventures continue to
lie ahead. Your favorite number is 42.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Wow! I actually do like the Hitchhiker series! I read all 7 (or 6, I can't remember). I'm actually very very tired these couple of days because I've got one of them coughs that only start up when you are lying down. And then I start hacking like crazy for the whole night. God, it actually hurts!
From
Guardian, a cool
quiz:
is your computer your friend?
You and your computer are, in the street vernacular, 'going steady'. You love the way it makes you feel, excuse its little annoyances and prefer to spend more time with it than anything (or anyone) else. Games, chatrooms and emailing your holiday snaps - is there anything else you could ask for?
my baby's home!!
Finally! Finally! My iPod came back home today. The long-awaited call came just right after lunch ("erm.. hi. Is Sharon in? I'm calling from Apple Care Centre..") and it was so hot outside, it's almost debilitating.
It turns out that they didnt even bother trying to fix the iPod. Once they have ascertained that it was a hardware problem, they just gave me a new one! Which is all fine and dandy only I don't understand why it has to take 3 days for me to get it. Oh well. Apple Centre is really cool. According to the nice guy who was helping me, they have a store inside the building that sells cool apple Tshirts/ jackets/ polos to staff! Wow. I should have asked him if there are any vacancies. Damnit.
Well meaning and well mannered, as you cycle home in the pouring rain, you mutter to yourself about the rubbish, crime and decay, before locking the front door and spending all night on the Internet
"The Dingoes got my Baby!"
It was a hot and humid afternoon as I tried to upload some freshly downloaded songs onto my iPod. As I fiddle with the date settings on the iPod, I realised that my PC is not recognising the iPod as an external hard disk at all. And before I can react, the iPod goes blank and refuses to come back on despite many frantic attempts at reviving it.
In short, I totally freaked and was on phone support for almost an hour (I wince to think about my phone charges for the month) and finally the nice lady proclaimed that I've got to "bring it in." So my baby's very ill, and I've got to bring it to the professionals (apple care centre). Thankfully, the centre is really near where I stay and now I have to leave my iPod with them and get a new one on Thursday. Which is all fine and dandy but now the question emerges:
what the hell am I going to do until then!!
You jest. You think it's not a big deal, but I've never been without music on my commutes before. NOt ever. And this morning, I was put on the big test.
I have never heard such inane conversations, started up by people who just happened to meet on their daily commutes. I have never realised people talk such rubbish on their mobiles at this god-forsaken hour of the working day. In short, it is almost like stupidity amplified.
I need my baby back. SOON!
I've just finished
The Da Vinci Code in practically 1 sitting last night. Yes, I know it being V'day and all, it might seem a little pathetic, but it was alright in the end. There are too many people in town anyways to be able to do anything remotely interesting so curling up with a book at home sounded like a good idea.
Anyways, the book is a good mix between mystery (who did it?) and history (the Knights Templar and The Hunt for the Holy Grail, Mary Madalene and Merovingian bloodline etc.) I used to be quite interested in this but I remembered that the book I picked up previously on this subject (
Holy Blood, Holy Grail) was so scary (the authors really go out of their way to be quite sensationalistic) that I gave up halfway. But Dan Brown really crafted the
Da Vinci Code very well. The mystery of the story is not in any way compromised by the brevity of the history and instead the two weaves together quite effectively to create a very interesting read.
I finally finished the book at about close to 2 in the morning, having started just after dinner.
Woo Hoo!!
Simpsons Movie Planned
Finally!! There's even a
quiz at the Guardian website to test your knowledge of the Simpsons, but for some reason, it's not working very well. I haven't been writing alot, so how's everyone doing?
comic of the week
(actually it is last week's comic but I've been meaning to put it up anyways)
When I first read this comic, I laughed and thought "how true!" but then the laughter subsided and I realised that it's really more sad than funny. How many people nowadays only communicate via their computers/ mobile phones/ machines in general? Maybe I should say instead: How many people
prefer to hide behind the machines? There just isn't so much "face time" anymore. And the sad thing is: nobody seemed to really mind.
For example, I spent the whole of today finishing up Kundera's
Slowness (it's excellent!) and Chevalier's
Girl with a Pearl Earring (which is a surprisingly good read) with the bare minimum of human contact and only the books and my iPod for company. And when my bf called after work to apologise for not calling during the day, I hadn't even noticed!
Anyways, putting that thought aside, I stumbled across the
quirkyalone website. Its intention is to provide a online community for quirkyalones ("people who resist the tyranny of coupledom. Oddly enough, they also tend to be romantics").
Take the
quiz to find out if you are a quirklyalone: Here's my score:
How quirkyalone are you?
Your score was 81. Somewhat quirkyalone (otherwise known as quirkytogether):
You are probably part of a mysterious group of people, the quirkytogethers. You share many of our quirky qualities, but you manage to find yourself, on a regular basis, in a coupled situation. Interesting.
