If it isn't my com that spoils, it's my printer, or vice versa, or both, or either one at any one time, or both at the same time. Even then, one which goes down will render the other practically worthless - without the com, i cant start anything, without the printer, i cant print anything. So u see, my life is very much subjected under technological determinism, if ur studying anything related to infocom u should know what that means, otherwise im just being controlled by my computer. Maybe it aint tat bad, some ppl actually get controlled by their handphones, and some get controlled by their playstations, yet again some are controlled by their watches (in fact most of us are controlled by time concealed within the technology of a watch). Some will even go to say that we're practically controlled by the TV, though this point may be subjected to debate for those who reject the television and choose to live the larger part of life in solace. Even without the high technology to exert control upon us, we are still subjected to subtler forms of control by lower tech creations such as the toilet bowl which fails to flush, or the tap that wouldn't turn off, or the phone that always rings, or the radio that always blares nonsensical propaganda on pop cultural mass consumption, or when ur mom starts nagging at you when her washing machine breaks down. Maybe ur father would come back cursing and swearing cos his car had a flat tyre and gave him a bad day. Moreover, your sister might just run over to you and bug you the whole day to lend her your fresh pair of batteries she desperately needs for her discman (luckily my sisters don't use disc players). And, back once more to the high-tech aspect of technological determinism, your lecturer might ask that u and your projectmates do a Powerpoint presentation on your project and the last one to protest in the group ends up taking up the task to prepare the Power slides, and because your poor computer may incidentally die on you at that crucial moment, you're forced to stay back in the skool com lab to complete your ill-assigned task. You might wanna meet a friend at X o' clock, but due some minor track faults in the mass RAPID transit that cost you 20 minutes of your precious time, you arrive in time to see noone around. Did you place an order the other day to reserve a rare toy and discover later much to your horror that your name didnt show up in the list and your jaws drop as you stare helplessly at the other lucky fellow zipping past you and out the shop with the last piece available? HAVE YOU TRIED UR BEST TO SING THRU AN INFERIOR QUALITY MIC AND SOUND SYSTEM BUT INADVERTENTLY GET SHIT FROM YOUR BAND LEADER EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW THAT AT LEAST 60% OF THE FAULT LIES IN THE LOW RATE TECHNOLOGY OF THAT BLUNDERING MIC AMP? EVER SANG IN A GIG IN WHICH THE SOUNDMAN PRACTICALLY TURNED DOWN THE MIC COMPLETELY THAT IT MADE ALMOST NO DIFFERENCE HAD YOU NOT USED THE MIC AT ALL? Got blinded by the myriad of cool green and blue and red laser lighting on stage supposedly meant to create special stage effects but turned out to wildly disorientate and confuse your vision and your concentration while you're singing?
If your answer to all of the above happens to be no, like mine right now, it's not that you're lying about your past. I can understand you're simply having a printer problem right now. I want u to take care alrite? Don do stupid things, it's just a printer.
After almost two bloody busy weeks of work, i've found some time to enter something into my little bloggy ^^
Been rushing thru my essay on American/global films on Friday till the very last minute before flying down to skool at the very last hour at 4pm to hand it in (5pm dateline).
So after this, I should be free a little for the weekend before the rest of the 2 group projects and 1 more solo 2000+ word essay takes my toll again... $!!!!##!!!@#$#!%%!!!
Anyways, I was trying to break a faulty CD-R just now like what Michelle Yeoh did in the anti-piracy advertisement we see in cinemas. I was afraid it might break into little pieces and the shards might fly everywhere like shrapnel and cause injury so I wrapped a t-shirt around it and bent it...
But in didn't break into a clean half like in the Michelle Yeoh ad, nor were there any dramatic "flying shards" that threatened to fly into your eyes at any moment - the damn thing just bent leaving a mark in the plastic and caused the layer of aluminium to peel... stupid thing. So I peeled the super thin and flimsy layer off and it came into fragile bits once released from it's plastic backing - like those stupid glittery stuffs u throw during weddings. Now the CD-R is bare - no aluminium, just the plastic with a slight bend mark. Stupid Michelle Yeoh anti-piracy ad... cheat small kid only... you think so easy to break CD is it... pooi! ( -x- )!
Woke up from a weird dream this morning....
Dreamt I was with the few of us bunch - Emerson Faith n Wendi ... We happened to be studying in this very gothic Castlevania-like school which also reminded me of my own Catholic High but far bigger and with an extensive network of hidden dungeons n crypts. The sky was purplish, cloudy and thunderous.
Suddenly this Kiddie Kei went crazy and berserk and we started chasing after her as she ran around madly. We reached this large school hall and there happened to be a glam rock band performance in front of a large cohort of students. I never saw Black Sabbath before but somehow that name got into me...
Soon after we reached that place, the performance was somewhat over and the crowd in the hall dispersed quickly and suddenly while the rock band carried on playing till its very end. At that moment some curtain elsewhere was lifted revealing another rock band jamming simultaneously with the first "Black Sabbath" band. This second band seemed like Metallica to me (thinks of the McFarlane toys version)
The first band had this funny geeky guy who seemed to be singing along with them as some extra out-of-place backup vocalist. As soon the curtains lifted revealing the "Metallica" band, the entire stage scaffolding collapsed and one of the debris fell onto that geeky guy and crushed him. During these "end" moments, the whole ground was shaking as if something catastrophic was taking place *note the Castlevania-like purplish thundering sky*
... and then i woke up ...
(=.o)?
After playing the Sega game Jewel Master for so many years during most of my teens (i think 7 or 8 bloody years --"), I only managed to discover a new hidden ability in the game today in the emulator version -
MY CHARACTER CAN USE A SWORD! Dammit!
No wonder the final boss took ages to kill all the while!
The game was so significant to me then, i knew there was something in it that i hadn't discovered... Sheesh! If only i found out about it earlier... *imagine himself jumping around like a mad deranged kid many years back* ...
But today, it's not such a big deal already... aiiiii...
*feeling like a game moron*
duhz --"
The small kiddie band of us - Long, Kiddie Kei, Rimei, Pinku and yours cutely - went to Toriko's RJC fashion show yesterday evening.
She wore this what i tot was a blood-splattered (oops sorri, it's actually koi-fish inspired) white ... garb (is it garb?) ... and held a white mask over her face so it looked pretty cold. Coupled with the silence among the audience becos of the fact she aint well known in school, there's something sinister and cold yet charming about it - cool.
