It’s a wet morning, we were too lazy to go out to get food, and the kids in our house have finished the entire inventory of instant noodles. So we decided to order in from Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut has a nice website at www.pizzahut.com.sg, but I would not say the same for the online ordering system. I don’t understand why they had decided to build it in Flash, the usability is certainly thrown out of window.
There are many ways to show off to the world that you have a new laptop that has built-in WiFi that lets you access to internet from Starbucks. You can do things like checking emails, looking up the map for direction, post a blog, update your calendar, run some shell commands, even build a website! But please do not use it to watch YouTube videos. Why? Because you are fxxking hogging the fxxking bandwidth as if you are the only person who needs internet access!
(Blogged from one of the Starbucks outlets in Malaysia, after waited 20 minutes for Gmail to load, and another 20 minutes for this blog to load, and realizing the guy sitting next to my table watching YouTube on his laptop.)
Sometimes, I hate having to think of the title, so I’d just use whatever that came up my mind the moment the cursor landed in the title field. This time, I thought about Master Yoda’s famous quote “Do, or do not, there is no try!” To make it fun, I modified the sentences a little, the concept remains. See, it’s not that difficult to be creative.
I received a call from a lecturer in Ngee Ann Poly today, she heard my interview over the radio last week, so she went on and checked my website and got my contact number from there. She’d like to invite me to go over to give a talk to the students about web design, a down to earth kind of talk, i.e. nothing on technical mambo jumbo but more on practical aspects of web design. She told me that they do teach about web design in the school, but they only teach about what’s in the book; and she wants me to talk about those not in the book. In which I think I’m going to like the idea a lot, because I never read any book!
One thing you might not know about Cancerian, is they like to be center of attention, a lot. And I confess that I did. All my life, I have always wanted to be center of attention every where I go; but I’m not the type who would scream out loud or do some stupid things to get attention kind of attention seeker, rather, I’d chose to do things differently, if lucky enough, in the process, people would start noticing me. That kind of attention turns me on a lot.
Some times, I hate this characteristic of me, because the same characteristic tends to get the better of me especially when it comes to relationships. I would not tell her that I need some attention, I would do something differently and hoping she would notice it. Now, this part of me makes me feel like I’m sissy, because why? I thought only girls would behave like this. But then again, other than this, the rest of me is rather manly you know? So I should be alright, right? Damn it, I probably shouldn’t even write about this… And what is it I was supposed to write again?
In the beginning, it was inefficient to communicate through mails, human said, let there be a better tool, the phone was invented.
The old phones couldn’t show who’s calling, human said, let there be display of caller’s identity, so the Caller-ID was introduced, and you need to pay five bucks to use it.
When realized more and more of their calls got rejected, human said, let there be non-display of caller’s identity, so the Caller-Non ID was introduced, and you have to pay another five bucks to use it.
Yes, it’s so cliche to use that for the title of my very first post. I’m not even sure how did that “hello world” thing come by, I just know it’s something almost every programmer would type whenever they test out a new computer program.
So, hello world, again!
Why “again”? Because this is not the first time I blog, and this blog isn’t all that new. I started to blog since 1999, which was a while before I moved to Singapore. During that time this was supposed to be a “what’s new” thing in my old personal site, slowly it evolved into a journal kind of thing (the word “blog” wasn’t even invented then!) and I had been blogging since then.
But I never got to become a famous blogger, probably because I never blogged about sex, politics, and how to make a billion dollars just by telling people how they can make a million dollars by blogging. But once I mentioned “10-minute haircut” in my blog, the very next moment it became the highest referred keyword. When people google for “10-minute haircut”, my blog came up first. Which was like, whoa! What a small success! But then again, I never became a famous blogger.
Maybe I will start to blog about sex, politics, and how to make a billion dollars just by telling people how they can make a million dollars by blogging; and to make it even better, I might also upload the video of numbskull dancing in yellow underwear, and my nude shots (if I ever undergo sex-change). I’m sure I will have better chances of becoming a famous blogger soon! Man, I’m excited already!…
… Now, I forgot what is it I was supposed to blog today…
