A Mind of My Own

It is a well known fact that I have a messy table at home despite the numerous nagging from my dear mother. Modobs decided to create a new meme about office or home desks. Ah, great, just when I am no longer in my very neat cubicle.

Before I start, the rules:

1. Describe your desk at the office or at home
2. Put a picture of it if you can
3. Explain why you sort it (or don’t)
4. Tag other people

What’s there to describe a messy table? I can start with receipts from various stores I have purchased from, bills, used envelopes, box containing a piece of half completed cross-stitch, mobile phones, chargers for my mobile phones and bluetooth ear piece, laptop, external hard disk, makeup set, makeup brushes, 3 water bottles and a table lamp.

I have never measure how large my desk is, right now, it’s a mountain that is on a balance scale. My work desk is always very neat. Feeling proud of myself now. I just feel overwhelm to clean up the table at home. (Defensive mode).

I don’t sort it as it’s organised mess. I do pay my bills on time. I know where my makeup set is. I can find my chargers and whatever it is. I’m so glad that I’m following these tips.

Finally, I’m curious about desks of Miss Loi, DK and The Young Businessman.

JC has an iPhone. While it didn’t appeal to me at first due to the exorbitant cost, I was rather impressed with its features after playing with it. There is a programme to check for the first and last bus, GPS, Safari for surfing the net, multi-touch, widgets, maps and many other functions.

Now that the price has dropped, I’m thinking if I should get it instead of Sony Ericsson  X1. Sounds tempting. There’s also the wide selection of iPhone wallpapers for iPhone users too.  Not that wallpapers don’t exists for other models. Just that a typical iPhone wallpaper is just more visible than others.

For those geeks, you would like iPhone mods. You can install applications that you like and hold such a sleek iPhone in your hands. Games, jokes, quizzes, RSS news feeds, you name it, you got it. For those who are always on the road, you can get weather reports and road conditions.

I’m starting to drool to get my hands on an iPhone. Besides, the size is the same as my Dopod 838 Pro with a thinner width and cool interface. The sleek black design and the function to store photos so that I can show them off do sound good to me. That way, I can show off photos of me and DD.

Oh, the idea of listening to songs while my long train ride to work does appeal to me too. I should include it in my list of mobile phones to replace my Dopod.

I was late for work this morning. Whenever I rush to do something, there’s always something to be forgotten. Today I forgot to bring my handphone. I feel so naked without it.

It was already too late to go home and get it because it would mean calling for a taxi when it’s way too expensive in the morning to call for one. To think I’m expecting a call today. Of all days, I had to forget.

The trip in the train was lousy. I had to stand all the way because the particular time meant a lot more people boarding from my stop and there wasn’t any seats left. I hate to stand for 45 minutes and I couldn’t even get a good nap because some guy shifted his foot and nearly crushed my new toe nail.

I want to go home

[via Flickr uploaded by 3amfromkyoto]

I read with interest on modobs’ view on equality of male and female. Previously I had wondered about the role of being a wife. We are still struggling to find that balance in accepting that despite the gender, we are still able to do that job.

I have not been subjected to such behaviours due to being the weaker sex during my years in the IT industry. Not that I know of anyway. However, comments such as “usually girls don’t use PDA phones”, “but both of u are women, you should be able to bond” among others. Why can’t I like using a PDA phone? If that other women find herself unable to communicate with me or both of us have totally different viewpoints and unable to respect that, how on earth do I bond with her?

What I prefer to think is that fighting for equality is an uphill task. What we should fight for is acceptance of individual tastes. What say you?

I finally got my own 838Pro back after waiting for 45 minutes. I can finally return DD’s handphone to him. It feels so good to have my beloved PDA in my hands. However, I was frustrated with the long wait. When I reached the place, it wasn’t raining but when I finally had my set in hand, it was raining. So not cool. I had to use the umbrella but I had another place to go to! I got my feet and jeans wet when I finally reached Orchard. My umbrella was totally wet and I had to search for a plastic bag. Wheelock Place doesn’t provide any on rainy days. I guess they are cutting costs.

I did managed to buy the things I needed before going home. Time for my tuition lesson soon. I wonder if there will be any difficult questions from my student. So worried about the upcoming exams. My exam is coming soon but my report is not half-baked yet! :O

We arrived on time in Bangkok. The walk to our luggage collection was about 20 minutes. In between, we took a look at their transit shops. Basically, the feeling was the same as in Changi Airport. They have become quite modernised to the stage whereby most of the things can be found in Singapore. By the time we were at their arrival hall, our luggage was on the floor instead of the conveyor belt because another flight was on that same belt after ours. We didn’t have much trouble locating our luggage and there wasn’t any need to attempt to lift them off the moving belt.

We took a taxi to Asia Hotel which was supposed to cost us 400 baht but there was a toll on the way and it cost us another 30 baht. We ended up paying 430 baht. I should have minus 30 baht from the toll. The driver knew a little bit of Mandarin and English. He spoke of their Songkran; their New Year cum water festival. Pity, we will be missing the celebrations.

The first item we bought was a 6-litre mineral bottle and a 1.25 litre Pepsi. It came into good use, we drank nearly 5 litres of it.

The weather was hot and stuffy throughout our stay except it rained during our walk in Chatuchak Weekend Market and just before our check out time. The rain water was dirty. My white T-shirt had patches of black spots though not so noticeable. The highlight of the trip was that we saw lots of cute puppies, cats and squirrels. They were crying to be brought home! However, it’s troublesome to bring them back.

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I woke up at 1.40am. It seems I’m excited for the trip in a few hours, right? Wrong. DD lent me his handphone and the problem with Samsung handphones is that they will repeat the SMS unless you have read the messages. The settings can be changed but I’m not going to change it.

Now, why am I using his instead of mine? That’s because I sent it for repairs. It better be in perfect condition and repaired by next week since I don’t want to trouble DD any longer than that. 5 days should be enough to repair, right? I still like SE K618i as my backup but buying it without contract is not worth it because it’s trade-in value is $150 now. A year later, it’ll be worth $50. I must get a voucher from M1 next week when I get home. 10 years using it and no voucher. How’s that for being loyal to it but receiving nothing?

I miss my Dopod. I won’t be able to log my thoughts in it since it’s not with me. I’ll be taking lots of photos I hope. I finally bought a 1GB CF card, wished I had tried the 4GB though since the sales was willing to let me try it on my A95 while I was there. Then I would know which is the largest capacity that A95 is able to support. Darn.

I went back to bed after remembering that I will be needing new socks. I managed to find 3 pairs that were bought recently. I still need 2 more pairs! However, I don’t understand where all my ankle socks disappeared too. I haven’t worn them for 4 years and they seemed to have disappeared saved for one. It’s just not a pair, mind you. Just that one for one leg.

Wonder if I should have hotcakes from McDonald later, I doubt Bangkok has it. Excited-ness!

Bangkok, here we come!

The wait is over. After 5 long years, I have finally managed to accumulate enough interest for my NSS. This comes in the the appropriate time, I’m in need of cash to fund my new laptop. I’m still thinking about that laptop. By the time I have enough to buy a new one, new specifications will be out again.

Every month, it’s the same. Maybe I should put this money into some other uses such as gaining interest in my savings account instead of spending them in other things that don’t gain interest at all. I’m in a fix now. I still want to upgrade my laptop. I still need a new handphone as standby so that I can send in my 838Pro for repair on its screen alignment issues.

I’m so in love with SE K618i now. It’s nothing compared to other models but at least it is functional while 838Pro is in surgery. I still haven’t book an appointment for my lasik and GST is going to rise on July 1st.

I walked around the booths in Suntec on a weekday. It was still very crowded. I guess a number of people have taken leave to get the bargains on the 1st day. I was really tempted on buying the Lenovo Y300 for $1,999. It’s a 13.3″ laptop with 1GB of RAM and 120GB of hard disk space. So cool! It’s a major difference from my current laptop of 40GB of hard disk space and 512MB of RAM. However, I must be crazy to buy it now because my brother will be buying a laptop from poly if he were to study next year. It would be a waste to have an extra laptop around the house.

I hate the crowds that jam the walkways so, this year, I decided to elbow my way out without apologies. Don’t block my way because the walkways are wide, you don’t stop in the middle and use up all the space just to admire that wondrous XBox 360, ok. In fact, elbowing my way through the throng was a lot more effective that waiting for the people in front to move or the oncoming crowd to let you through because they won’t let you through. They want to get through you first. Yea, try phasing through me like the X-Men. Then I’ll probably let ya through, k?

I didn’t buy a thing though. I did consider buying a 4GB thumb drive or a 2GB thumb drive though. Looking around does make me feel impulsive to buy a laptop. I’m always craving for better laptops. If I were to get a new one, it’ll be my 2nd laptop. I wonder how many I will buy in future. I shudder to foresee.

I have a PDA. For those who are adversed to PDAs, you can try PocketMod. It’s a handheld disposable PDA. Found via 1%. Quote from the site what makes PocketMod special.

1. It fits easily in your back pocket or purse.
2. It’s as cheap as one piece of paper (Because that’s all it is!)
3. It opens like a book. Leading to easier to find, more organized notes.
4. The first page has a pouch, big enough to carry a business card!
5. Customizable with “Mods” tailored to your needs.
6. It’s free and fun!

I have checked on the customizable “Mods”. Here’s my screenshot of it. Interesting, I have never kept track of my input of foods though I wonder if I will be using it since I don’t have the habit of printing out such things. I may use it if I find that it’s more useful. If I don’t need it anymore, I can just throw it away. Now, I must shred it before throwing it away since I don’t want to be stalked or my privacy invaded.