Worktitude (Lack of)

The good thing about my job is that I can actually space out for hours and still be able to get things done. Just because it's the same old thing every single day. Of course there are those moments when customers would disrupt my train of (very deep) thoughts for one reason or another. And I really hate it when they asked me to judge how big or how small they are just so they can get the apparel with the perfect fit. I know it's my job to tell them but lets face it, I hardly ever like it when people make offhand comments over how big or how small I am (well, most of the time the former is very much prevalent) so it just make sense that I would be very very reluctant to tell them what fits for them. On some occasions, I'd just direct them towards the fitting room but on most others, I could only blurt out "I dunno..." and subsequently feeling sooo dumb after making sucha statement. And the perils of dealing with people? Ahhhhh, lets not get into that. I am too tired to say anything more. I've had to work ten days straight before I could actually earn my off days. It sucks like that.

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For once after more than five months doing nothing, I actually hauled my ass off for a temp job. Though I've a sinking feeling, it's gonna be shortlived. Despite psycho-ing myself to work for a couple of months, maybe three, I actually found myself counting the seconds every work day. Now I know how you guys feel having to slog away at your part-time jobs ayyy.

Arghhh. This is so badddd. I'd planned on working for a couple of months coz I wanna get myself a new laptop. The one I'm using is working just fine. Connectivity-wise and all. But it does has it moodswings too and I especially hate it when the red streaks appear. It's sucha zaman batu syndrome mannn.

Ehhhh! And I just realized that I mention red streaks and moodswings in the same sentence. I guess my laptop do get the monthly crimson tide too. LOL. Anyways, as much as I'd wanna admit defeat, it's still too early to measure the level of survivabilty in this current job of mine. So I'll give myself a few million seconds more. Heh.

I blogged about the virus attack the other day right? Well it turns out that the worms not only wrecked the hard disk of my ipod. The entire content in my laptop is gone for good a few days after I'd emptied the contents in my ipod. So now, I'm MSN Messenger-less and Torrent-less. And I'm gonna have to install a whole bunch of programmes for my jog mp3, digicamm, handphone, ipod, etc etc.

And of course, I have to build up my music library from scratch. As in ripping tens of CDs into the itunes, and transferring a whole lot of other illegal music from the backup storage space (i.e. my old mp3). Forget downloading Veronica Mars mannn. I have wayyy too many technical woes to deal with already. Damn.

In spite of it all. As in, all these techh glitches that has hit me like a landslide, I have found a light at the end of the dark "tech" tunnel. Hah.

See, it all began when I headed down to International Plaza to have a pair of shoes customized. Those who know me, will know what a "cinderella" I am. It's just that, "prince charming" came tagged with the most unreasonable price EVER! It's like more than DOUBLE the cost than what I was used to paying for. More than 400 bux?! You'd think I'm trying to get myself a fancy designer wear or something. Seriously, it was just the most basic kinda design, those you can find at Bugis for just ten bucks? Yes, that one!

I was really really tempted to just go for it. Like totally wipe out my bank a/c coz I'm getting sick and tired of not being able to find the perfect fit for myself. But I just hadta call my dad, hoping that he'll pay half or something. And I got an outright NO. Can you imagine how hopeless I felt at that point in time? How I felt so cacat coz I couldn't find a pair of shoes that can fit me nicely? Totally totally sidelined, it's like I need to join in the line of all those ex-convicts, hoping to gain mercy out of the yellow ribbon campaign. Why wouldn't I feel that way man?! Millions of ladies shoes on the racks and nothing can fit me?! Whereas everybodyelse has the liberty to become the next Imelda Marcos. I felt dejected, violated...rather depressed. At that point in time that is.

Of course things took a turn when my dad kindly searched the internet for websites that could possibly sell plus-sized shoes. And really, I have to kick myself hard for not even trying to search them online. I mean, I should know better right. I can spend hours looking out for Victoria Secret's stuffz on ebay and yet I haven't the faintest idea to search for shoes that could fit me. Duh.

Ok, so my dad found a website which sells pretty big shoes and best of all, they offer shoes that are 'extra wide' as well. I've made a purchase, and now the only thing that could go wrong is if I totally messed up reading the size chart and subsequently chose the wrong size for myself. That can actually happen, coz I was pretty confused with the size chart, what with the US, UK and Euro variations. I don't know...I'm just hoping against hope that I got one which will fit me nicely.

Ah yess, the light at the end of the dark "tech" tunnel. Online shopping!

Damn Virus

I had wanted to blog yesterday, with concern to my "cinematic experience" whilst watching Sex and the City on the same day in the evening. Unfortunately, I had to battle the damn Trojans, which not only invaded my comp but also the hard disk on my ipod, using another identity, "Recycler". Or maybe it's just another species of virus altogether.

Yeah I was dumb enough to plug in the the player to the comp despite knowing very well of the presence of those stupid worms. But I wanted to save all my photos! I've no backups of them hokay and I thought I might as well make a copy of the hefty file into the hard disk, just in case trojan totally corrupt my comp. But I just hadta fall asleep while waiting for ALL the pics to be sync-ed inside the ipod. There were just too many and it was taking forever.

I woke up at around six am only to find some funky DJ streaming going on at iTunes. Like who the hell could have clicked on those ayy? Please don't tell me some entertainment-deprived spirits did that. And there was an error pop up, stating no connection to further access the DJ streaming thingy, WHICH I DID NOT CLICKED ON. And then I double checked if everything was fine on my ipod. No files missing. Nothing funky. But when I tried to access the hard disk, that's when all hell broke loose.

Basically, the presence of Recycler in my ipod hard disk made it impossible for me to access the files in them thanks to its autorun function. Meaning that it will just "detonate" should I gain access into the hard disk. So everytime I clicked on the 'G' drive, the anti-virus did a total clampdown. I tried to find other ways to eliminate just the Recycler but there was no way I could get to the file. So I was stuck. And that's when I had to make a major major decision. Which wasn't that easy. Like I've got fifty over GB worth of content in there mannn!

Operation R E S T O R E. Now I am so so so depressed because I lost every single videos on my ipod. YES, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

The Gameplan, Beauty and The Beast, No Reservation, Just Like Heaven, Michael Clayton, National Treasure 1&2, Music and Lyrics, Clueless, The Holiday, Freedom Writers, Home Alone 1&2, Shrek, Brother Bear, Kindergarten Cop, Night At The Museum, The Devil Wears Prada, The Apprentice Season 6, The Celebrity Apprentice, some episodes from Ugly Betty Season 2, Gossip Girl Season 1, a couple of Anggun's music videos, several others which I'm trying to recall all the titles and OF COURSE, MY SUPER PRECIOUS VERONICA MARS SEASON 1- 3.

I lost them all man! I totally lost them!!

I took pains to download the shows, have them converted to the Mp4 format. All the time battling the limited space in my comp because of all these. And now? Poof! I've no backup of them either. Funny thing is, I had them uploaded into my ipod and I had the idea of putting the backups in the very same device, at the hard disk. Very smart ayy? Blahhh.

**I finally had the comprehensive anti-virus thingy up and running coz the one I used previously had already expired (ahhh, now that explains the virus attack right?). I did so many scans in just one day, I've gotten TOTALLY paranoid. My photo file is still very safe. And I'm gonna take my time to dL all three seasons of VM all over again.

Sex and The City

I shall now blog about my tragic cinematic experience whilst watching SATC hokay. The thing is I was looking forward to watching the movie coz I'd read of how Cashmere Mafia totally took on the whole SATC vibe. I loveee Cashmere Mafia that's why. I wanted to see how identical those two shows are.

Me and Nurul chose to get seats all the way at the back, for very obvious reasons. And so waited for the movie to start while snacking on nachos and cheese. And then, the fireworks began....

Coz we had the second and third seats from the aisle so the first seat right next to the aisle was empty. And I thought nobody would get a single seat for him/her self. But nooo. SOMEONE did came in to watch SATC all alone. And when you think of that, you would imagine someone around the age range of, say, 18 - 35? Ok scrap the age range. I'm thinking people who would at least have a clue of what the movie is all about. Is reasonably young, or at least those old but trendy types.

So guess who walked into the cinema all alone? A man probably in his late forties, with a pot belly, wearing sloppy clothes and clutching onto two wet-market plastic bags. He plopped down next to me on the seat nearest to the aisle. FUG. The moment the movie started, he was somewhat breathing heavily and I realized he had a funny odour on him. My anticipation to watched the movie came crumbling down coz I know I'm gonna be in for the long haul. What more, knowing that the movie was gonna last about two and a half hours.

WTF. Can you like imagine watching some totally sensational show like SATC next to someone who not only came in alone, but could actually pass off as someone's dad?! OF COURSE NOT! It beats me ya know. Like why would a man like that would wanna watch SATC. Well of ocurse anyone can watch anything they want but still...! Could it have been because of the 'S' word?

Like seriously. I'm pretty sure he can watch more of those upfront stuffs at yangtze cinema or whatever cinema that has all those full frontal flicks for that matter. I doubt he understood much of the movie anyway. He only laughed when others laugh. And for most of the movie he was yawning away. Loudly. Well loud enough for ME to hear at least. At that, I can only conclude that it was really the 'S' word that lured that freaking ahpek to watch the movie. Nothing else man. Nothing else. That totally ruined my mood to watch the damn movie. He was right next to me. No go. Fug.

Oh and worse off, I found out that he is much older than I think he is. Coz he was somewhat wobbly as he was going down the stairs to exit after the show's over. It's odd, sad, disgusting...I dunno. I can't quite describe. It ruined my movie day anyhow.

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Now for the SATC vs Cashmere Mafia face off. Haha! I have to say, I prefer CM so much more. Maybe coz I hardly know of SATC during that point in time when it was a raging phenom. So I didn't exactly live through that phase in order to totally feel the entire show. Also, I watched CM first before I ever laid eyes on SATC. Heh.

Other than that, the cast in SATC really look old. Like duhh, it's been so many years! But it just didn't kick in, ya know, with the whole glam vibe and all. Or maybe I've had too much gossip girl. Even then, the portrayal of the four women in CM stands out better, to me. Though I am very much certain that all the SATC purist are gonna vouch for the show better than they would for CM. Coz SATC came along first after all. And CM will always be deemed an SATC rip-off. Might as well, coz CM is already gone for good after just six (or was it seven?) episodes. Thanks to the WGA strike. No thanks really. Bleah.

Ooohh and a side note, did you saw one of Blair's cronies acting as a waitress in the show?? It was just weird. From being one of the close friends of the IT girl in GG to a waitress in SATC, and appearing for just a few seconds at it. Just plain weird.

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