Attack Of The Virtual Germs

I have a virus going round on MSN Live. It goes round talking to my contacts abt pictures whether it be theirs or 'mine'.

Shit happens.

I don't really mind, cos there's nothing important in the laptop anyway. All that is important, the music and pictures are already in my new portable HDD. Other than my story but I shifted that to online storage and hopefully it hasn't been affected by the virus. Thank God I bought my HDD when I did huh? Talk about a timely buy.

The only thing that I have to face is bringing back my laptop to the computer shop so soon after getting it back. I'm sure I'm gonna get a ticking off by the 'shop auntie'. She's the kind that seems to scold you when she talks to you. Harmless stuff, I just humor her. She does say funny stuff sometimes. It's gonna cost a bit of cash if I bring it back to be reformatted but it doesn't matter.

It seems that the virus is confined to when I use MSN Live. It hasn't affected my browser, but after saying that, it seems that my pages are taking a second or two longer to load. Might just reboot the whole laptop again to save the hassle.

Just please, a virus filled drive can be fixed. Not a drive that crashes and I have to buy a new one. Don't think it's gonna happen this time, cos the drive is new and relatively virus free, save one. The fact that my browser doesn't seem to be that affected is good news.

So, to anyone, on MSN that has been receiving weird shyte from me, it ain't me. Sorry for the inconvenience.

To Be In Two Places At Once

The weekend was quite decent.

I got a new 120Gb portable HDD. Set me back $160. Worth it to save all my music, pictures, etc.

Ah, I am a quite a pickle, people.

2 good friends. 2 performances. Starting half an hour apart at two different and far-apart places. And I've promised my presence at both plays, weeks before, without knowing they would fall on the same day.

What am I to do...probably won't decide till the morning of the day itself. Probably will keep changing my mind.

Got news for Dramatec. Supposed to be present on this Friday. Won't know what's going on when I get there. Everyone probably already knows each other. I'll be like in a fishbowl cos everyone will be looking at me.

Ah well, like I said, I'm just gonna bring me to the party. Conversation will be key.

Just saw the trailer for Step Up 2. Thought it was gonna be crappy like some sequels are but I think its actually gonna be decent. I don't mean, its gonna be a movie classic but it'll be enjoyable.

Other trailers of note are "Hitman",(based on the game) "Iron Man" & "The Dark Night" (the one after Batman Begins)

Gotta wait till Valentine's Day or thereabouts though.

Okay, actually I really don't have anything to blog about except for the dramatec thing and also the problem I'm facing.

Might be bringing my laptop to school on Friday. Great time for me to work on my story.

Impressions & 'Re-Impressions' In The Early Days

Cool. So far school seems alright. In fact, it seems quite good. I seem to have stepped out from my shell and stopped worrying about the kind of impression I was making on people. Of course, I didn't actually resolve to be more outgoing. I was something that happened on it its own, on a sub-conscious level.

Whatever it is, I'm bringing me bitches! I'm gonna not worry anymore, I'm just gonna play it cool and whatever you get from me, that's it, that's me. No more hiding behind a quiet facade.

When I first came in ITE, I thought that my life was bigger than that. That I had no need to fear being myself and not be accepted. No longer having that fear allowed me to just be myself and it paid off cos I had more friends. I may have rubbed others the wrong way too but you can't please everyone. I'm gonna stop trying to present myself in an acceptable light to everyone I meet. I'm just gonna bring me to the show and it's up to them if they want to accept me or otherwise. Same thing now that I'm in TP.

I know I've got to step up my game this semester.

The modules.

Statistics. The look of it a little scary but if I keep plugging away, I'll do fine. The lecturer is the 'stick-up-her-butt' kind and my lec group has to face her for all the lecs and not a rotating team of lecturers like other modules.

MicroEcons is like...MacroEcons. Let's hope I can start on the project a lot earlier than I did for Macro.

Bus Accounting2.The 'bitch' subject for me last semester cos I couldn't get motivated for it. The tag it had seems to have been potentially usurped by Bus Stats as the 'bitch' subject. I've got to worker harder at this cos I can do well if I do. Last sem, I was oh-so-lazy to even do tutorial questions. No wonder I did average for the exam.

Principles of Management (PrinMgt). This is something similar to Organizational Behavior.Should be pretty standard stuff.

Lastly, Sociology. My elective. Yeah, I was told that this would be a fun subject. (Even though I'd very much still rather have French or Creative Writing or Understanding Theater). My tutor is someone whose real job is being a curator at the National Museum. She majored in Political Science at NUS. So that's motivation for me, Political Science. The subject is fun, it makes us think. I like.

I have the same number of hours as the previous sem but somehow it seems more slack.

I've made it work even better but attending other lectures not assigned to me so that I only have 2 days that I finish after 1.

Monday and Thursday. The latter is THAT day where I have 4 hours of lessons.

The first is at 9-11. (Prin Mgt tutorial)

4-6. (Socio tutorial)

5 hour break. Righhhhhhttt....

And they're both tutorials so I can't escape by rearranging them like I do with my afternoon Wednesday lectures.

I wish I could take all the electives I want. Other than those mentioned above, I also wanna take Art Appreciation. More specifically, Film Appreciation ( they don't have it, it falls under Art Appreciation)

Movie-analyzing & critiquing. That's perfect for me.

Can I just pass the year by taking electives?? Haha.

Still wondering I can get into Dramatec, waiting for news on that. Hopefully by Sunday night I'll know.

I don't know why but I can't wait to watch Man Utd's game this weekend. I want to go get friends' birthday presents as well.

Most importantly, continue the story I'm writing. I hope for progress this weekend.

Might bring my laptop on Monday. (Damn, I forgot to check the school for comfy places with Internet access and a power point that I can plug into. I think I need to go configure my system to the school's proxy first to be able to access the Internet.

With the laptop I can, do my work and projects, watch Heroes2 & PB3 while on break at school and continue with my story. Now, I won't be able to say that school has kept me busy and kept me away from my story.

Oh, oh, lastly, MIC boys&girls are performing at ITE Simei on Thursday. 245pm. I'll be able to come and watch cos of my 5 hour break. Though, I wish it would be like at 2 or something cos I'd probably have to rush back for Socio tutorial at 4. I'll leave at around 330 and probably cab back. Even if Simei is rather near to TP, I'd have to rush cos I'll only be planning to leave at 330.

I think some minister or government dude will be watching the play so that will be great motivation for the cast to do well. They're mostly made up of seniors so they know what to do.

Just a thought. I sound cool about school and all but this could all be first-week enthusiasm. It could dissipate over the next few weeks. Lets hope not. Even if I does, lets hope not too quickly.

Wow, this has been a long one. Maybe not super-long but it seems to talk a lot about certain things.

P.S. - (11.40PM) I was watching American Gangster when the thing froze on me.

Noooo!! "#%$*!!"

There is one cool scene where Denzel Washington was eating at a diner with his brothers, he sees this guy walking down the street. This guy had been refusing to pay him for the drugs he bought cos he thinks he's cool and doesn't respect Denzel. Denzel goes up to him, asks. He refuses. Denzel takes out a gun, puts it to the guy's head and the guy says...

"What Frank? (Denzel's character) You gonna shoot me? Right here in front of all this people?"

Without saying a word, BOOM! Denzel shoots the guy in the head. In the middle of the street, in front of everyone, in broad daylight. Takes his money and leaves.

Badass. Denzel is a badass.

I must watch the rest of the movie!

Disillusioned

Only have one tutorial today so today I had no lessons since there are no tutorials for the first week in general.

But I went today school to sit in on a lecture for my Principles of Management module.
I sat in with Leisure & Resort Management students. It was weird sitting alone at the back. But it was worth it if it allowed me to have Wednesday afternoons off and not have lessons. I go for this one now, I don't have to attend the one assigned to me on Wednesday.

Oh, I couldn't change my elective. I'm stuck with Sociology. Damn. At least I'm okay with it and it isn't something stupid like Water Technology or something like that. Still, I would really liked to have my preferred electives, those that I already had an interest in.

So now, every Thursday, I have to deal with having a 5 hour break. Great.

My mate handed me the latest soccer management game, FM2008 but I realized I couldn't play it cos my DVD-ROM drive is not working. This, after, I just spent $200 cleaning up the laptop and getting a new hard drive.

I'll have to repair it over the next few months. Not now. But hopefully before the year ends.

I'll only have my story and school to focus on. Now, that fate has really forced me to forget the past.I only wish the process would have gone faster. But like all great things, they'll never really be forgotten.

Never thought it would happen. But just like Neyo, I'm so sick of love songs.

In fact, I no longer believe.

But I'll still keep the promises that I made to myself and promised myself that I would keep them.

Round 2 of 6. Ring The Bell !

Well, school starts tomorrow. With a new time-table that is absolute bollocks.

I want to see if I can change my electives. I got Sociology. I was supposed to put Psychology but somehow I didn't. I know, Socio is more fun but I am a tad interested in Psych, after a mate of mine took it the last time.

That's the worst-case scenario. Well, the worst-case scenario would be me having to stick with Socio.

I'd like to get into Understanding Theater or Intro to French or Creative Writing.

We'll see how it goes.

My objective for this semester? Be more focused than the last.

I'm going to do good if I carry on like how I did last semester. Just not great. Great is good enough for university.

I'll be waking up earlier to go to so earlier than 11. Actually I start at 9 on Mondays but since it's the first week, tutorials are void. Except for Socio's. I'll go see the course manager to sort out the whole electives issue.

Oh, I just remembered about the killer early morning commute to school that I'll be facing again.

Puta!

I'm thinking about not going for the lectures I'm assigned and instead going for the ones that are not assigned to me but I'll go for them cos I'm free during that time and by doing so, I'll have a better looking timetable. Particularly when it comes to afternoons. It'll leave me free for MIC Studio back at ITE or free enough to revise and do work, or even finish writing my book?

It's not novel length but I'm trying to be deadly serious about this book. I think I have a storyline that I can work with.

The last day ended up nicely. A small, short regathering of some secondary school people. It was good that we kept in touch.

We talked. Boy, did we talk. Ok, no, I'll leave it at that. Nothing more.

Ooh, tomorrow's Monday. Which means I can watch HeroesS2 by Tuesday and Prison Break 3 soon after. PB3 was postponed for a week cos of the MLB World Series.

I'll also be bringing my laptop to school to get it configured with the school network in case I'll need it for projects. Probably, more importantly for when I'm bored during school breaks.

Hmm, maybe I could even watch Heroes2 & PB3 at school? That would be nice.

Grandma was cool enough to give me $50 bucks for a birthday present. That should tide me over till the end of the month when I get my allowance again. I hope I can get my pay soon after that. I will use all that to go get new sneaks, a portable hard disk drive, so I won't have to worry bout space on my laptop and sign up for my driver's license.

Aye, it's late now. I best be off and be ready for school tomorrow.

You're Not Lost

I just finished writing the first half of chapter 1 of my new story. At least I've started.

The 20th was fine this year. It was good. It wasn't mindblowing but it was good. Many-many well wishers who wished me well and who I appreciate many times over.

No prezzies but I don't give a damn. Not that I don't appreciate them. Already touched on this in a previous post.

To the mates, thanks for bothering for the cake. The thought was fecking brill (brilliant), eh?

But seriously, there were more well-wishers than i expected. Many thanks.

I couldn't sleep last night. So I thought I'd watch TV a bit.

Trust Michael Buble to sing me a soothing melody. I don't fancy him or anything but the dude just makes jazz cool for me.

The song made me think about all my close friends who feel like they're all alone.

This one is for them.



It starts off a little slow, but wait for the chorus cos it's really meaningful.

So to my friends out there, you ain't alone. Remember that.

Maybe it's just as important that I should remember all my close friends who aren't so close anymore. Who think they can't talk to me about their stuff like they used to, just cos circumstances change. Just cos fate seemed intent on setting us on different paths.

"Oh, I can't approach Khairul anymore like I used to. Cos it'll be weird."

I'm still here.

It's even harder to say you'll be there for someone. When that someone doesn't need you.

But to my close friends, who've known me for past couple of years, I'm still here.

I'm not a compassionate saint but neither do I have a stone-cold heart.

Money Comes Easy, Money Goes Easy

The hols have been fine, mainly cos I've been mixing it up nicely. Late-night-till dawn slacks with the mates, back to Bishan a couple of times, days where I'm out and bout town and also times where I'm just chilling out at home.

I have to say I love the new days of chilling at new places with old friends. It's a change from chilling with the mates cos we always do at the same old place.

Let's do more of it eh, homie?

The festive season was alright. Especially the 2nd day cos this year I visited houses on my dad's maternal side that I was close to when I was a kid, but not really now. Also visted a few houses and I don't know how exactly I'm related to the occupants. Somehow I am, even if it's my dad's friend. Nice thing about thatos, if you would allow me to be chauvinistic and unbelievably shallow for a moment, is seeing all the girls who aren't bad at all, I must say.

That aside,certain sections of the family have heard of, some have read my story in the 'Inspirations' book. And a few more heard on Sunday and they were all very encouraging and postive about me doing an actual book. Maybe not published cos that's hard but at least I should have the manuscript, I presume.

Aye, the burden of expectation. It's hard to get myself to do this and flesh out an actual book from my ideas but now this 'motivation' means that I have to step up and get something decent out.

But I'll play down the praise cos it means nothing. I mean, it does, cos it's really sincere from the praise-giver but what I mean is I want to keep myself level-headed and sensible in this matter. After all, there are 19 other writers with equally compelling stories.

Neither am I playing down the praise to get more praise. You know, say "oh-no-I'm-no-good" so that others will turn back and say "oh-yes,khairul-you-are-good".

I'm just trying to be sensible about this. I'll just work on my next story on the side, when I'm free, without the pressure of expectation or the ego-inflating praises.

I'll just do my story, is all.

I think I've got one. The story I started on is now gone cos I didn't save it. But my brain chanced upon a new one recently and I think it's even better.

Moving on...

This bites. Most definitely bites. Why?

Laptop is on the fritz and this time it is down for the 10-count.

The hard disk needs to be replaced along with a complete reboot and this has set me back a princely sum of $200.

All my festive earnings are gone and if that wasn't enough, I have to put my plans to sign up for a driver's licence on hold.

&%$# !!!

I've not had the laptop at home ever since Friday night. But I was told that everything will be fixed up by tonight. I'll have more disk space too cos the minimum they have is an 80GB hard disk and that's more than double the laptop's original capacity of 37.2 GB.

I really hope they can save my 'my pictures' folder. The songs are fine, I can get them again if I want to but the pictures are of immeasureable value. Those are the only memories I have of some people and places left.

From having my finances in a rather comfortable position, I now only have a meagre amount of money which I have to guard carefully for the rest of the month. Pay from the week's job at the ad agency will only come in early next month. I'll do my licence but only a month from now.

I don't even have the cash to get new clothes, like I'm supposed to and hang out with people I'm supposed to.

I just wanna get my laptop so I can start on my story before I get lazy or forget.

I want my money so I can do what I want to and hang out with the people I miss.

My birthday's coming up but it's no biggie for me. It'll be nice if the family could give cash cos that's what I need but hey, I'm just joking, cos the family don't really do that. Dad's talking about dinner somewhere nice, mine combined with Sis' cos her birthday was on the 7th of this month.

Birthdays are just another day to me, maybe just a little bit more special. I don't care for gifts but they are quite readily appreciated when they come my way.

What do I really want?

What I really want can't be bought in a store, not the 99-cent store nor the fashionable streets of Milan.

It's not tangible but I do crave for it so...that is, if I have to crave for something. I'm not gonna say it here. If you're curious to know, ask and maybe I'll tell, maybe not.

Right, I'm done at the Internet cafe, hopefully I'll have the laptop back home by tonight.

Feline Friends

I didn't want to do a post today but I did in the end cos of something which I'll talk about later.

I got a message asking to come down to a meeting for the Moneysense event MIC is doing and just see if the script was good and just spot flaws.

I don't think there were any.Apart from it being too long perhaps, the story's actually got good flow and developed characters.

Storyline's way decent too.The climax isn't a letdown and neither is it too heavy.

Of course, like any event the CCA does, there are problems but the show must go on. I think they'll deal with it and do what needs to be done.

After that headed to Geylang and bought my festive clothes...like finally! I don't feel much for this year's festivities. So I wasn't too choosy about the colour either.

After that, when I reached home, I saw a kitten near the stairs of my house. It was cute but I didn't pay attention to it and headed to my door. There was a big paper bag at my door. I thought nothing of it, till my sister came back.

It turns out, the kitten had crawled back into the paper bag ( probably came inside the paper bag; someone put it there. Maybe cos they knew we've fed a few strays)

When I crawled at peeked at the kitten, it turned out to be a newborn. It couldn't even open it's eyes...it's fur was still wet

I felt sad that it was a stray and we had no choice to call the SPCA. My household is in no position to keep a pet, what with all of us working, schooling and not home most of the time. At least we're honest about it, I think.

So we called the SPCA's 24-hour hotline and they came within 30 mins to pick it up. It was done really fast and I didn't even get a chance to see the kitten leave. The guy just picked up the bag with the kitten inside and just left.

As I was inside and trawling further through the SPCA's website, I saw this...

Any animal given up to the SPCA may be put to sleep in 24 hours If you cannot accept that this animal may be put to sleep within 24 hours from now, please find an alternative instead of giving it up to us.

It got me all down and quite honestly, all sad.

I'm not saying it's a certainty but it is a possibility.

I was supposed to order Macs for supper cos all I had for dinner was a feww bites of something and water. I didn't really have the appetite anymore.

Then I realised that I had to cos I would be fasting tomorrow and me not eating tonight wouldn't really help.

The only thing that consoles me is that if the kitten is put to sleep, then it would be in a far better place than anywhere else on this Earth.

Still, I feel all down and shyte.

In case, others don't know, I like cats. I grew up with one when I was at my grandma's and he's still around.I don't think that makes me a sissy or a wuss cos usually guys are rather indifferent towards cats.It's usually girls who love or hate (cos they're afraid) cats.

At first I didn't wanna type this cos it's a stupid memory...

But once, while I staying at my grandma's house. My elder cousin, brought up this stray cat. We fed it for a bit,played with it. Garfield, the house cat, got all jealous...

A few days later, we heard a cat's loud meowing at night.As if it was in a catfight.

It turns out some sick cunt had kicked and abused the defenseless cat. It was hurt when my cousin brought it up again. She bought it to the vet but it didn't make it and it died.

Like I said, I didn't wanna type this, but I did cos I would feel wrong if I didn't.

I think my materialistic birthday wish was for me to somehow be able to work and earn enough to buy an XBox 360.

But now, my wish is that the kitten gets a good home.

For real.

And I don't give a damn about the 'you-jinx-the-wish-if-you say-out-loud' belief. This wish is too pure and too real to be affected by something silly like that.

And you know what, I'm a little allergic to cats. But I still don't care. I still like 'em. Even when I get a house of my own, I'll have 'em. Like if I get rich and famous (haha!) and I have my house featured on MTV Cribs, I'm gonna introduce my cats (2 or 3) during the tour of the house. One of them's gonna be named Prince.

Lol.

On a last note, I hope that God looks after the kitten.

I do apologize if this post sounds a little sissy-like cos it's seems so 'emo' but I just had to get it out. It's not about me, it's about the adorable cute kittens and cats. For them, I don't apologize. Cos this post is nothing, cos they deserve so much more.

Those Stories In Print, Belated From The Big Screen & Yet To Be Seen On The Small Screen

Thanks for that favour on Wednesday, fraulein. Needed that. Big ups to you for that. Danke.

Yeah, apparently I was expected to finish cutting out approximately 24 x 17 + 32 x 17 cards within 2 days all by myself. Got help, did it. Didn't sleep all of Wednesday night till the next morning, headed home, got some shuteye, came into the office at 1330, sorted out the cards into 17 sets each and I was done.I was done with working,for now at least.

Bad news is, I have to wait a month before the cheque rolls through. Well, at least I know it's coming right?

Went off at 530 and for some reason, I didn't feel like going home even though I was all alone. It was also probably the fact that from 515pm onwards, the buses and trains are packed to the brim with people and I wanted to avoid that.

So, I dropped off at City Hall to go buy a book on the career of Johnny Depp. It doesn't only talk about his career but comments on it as well and comments on things that were happening around him at that time.Pretty mundane stuff, unless you're interested, like me. I went round to a bookstore the day before too but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to buy a book at the end of it all.I wanted to get a new book,but not that desperately.

Well, there was this one book...John Carbone's Last Of The Good Guys which I found at Kinokuniya. A mafia thriller. Really wanted to buy it but it was a little out of my price range. 30 bucks. It's fine actually but like I said, not that desperate for a book. Besides, that Johnny Depp book from HMV only set me back 11 dollars.

The next night, when I was at Hougang Point, buying my dinner at KFC, to break fast with. I saw one of those cheap book sales, the ones the put right in the open space in the malls.

I ended up buying 2 great books on the cheap. They would have cost me close to 40 dollars if I bought them at retail prices but I got 2 for 10 dollars. So now I have 3 books, and I've barely started the one about Johnny Depp.

D'oh.

But it's nice that I'm trying to stretch my dollar too. Well, if it is just a little bit.

One of them was titled 'Londonstani' by Gautam Malkani. Riveting stuff. Do check it out, if you like to read. It has a look about the youth culture of the Desis or young British Indians (Muslims, Hindu, Sikh) through this protagonist named Jas. There's this nice, little twist at the end which impacts the social judgements that were made in the earlier part of the book.

It's got a bit of lingo that people over there use but fortunately for me, having close friends from that circle, of that ethnicity means I can understand the real meaning of the lingo and appreciate it better. But it still doesn't get in the way of the story even if you don't understand the lingo.

I recommend it to anyone looking for a good read.

Other than that, I basically used the two days after the job on Thursday to recuperate. Lack of sleep is fine, but lack of sleep whilst fasting is a bit of a stretch for me.Kinda screwed up my system a bit cos it probably didn't know night from day.

Someone finally posted working links for Entourage so I spent these all of yesterday watching the first 8 episodes in the 4th season of Entourage. Only stopped cos the loading was getting laggy and I couldn't really take watching more than 8 episodes in a row. Though now, it screws up my Monday 'Entourage-watching' experience cos I already watched ahead.

Oh what the heck, might as well, I'm already watching ahead for the 3rd season of Prison Break as well as the 2nd season of Heroes, now innit?

Also watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie while waiting for them to load. Yes, one of the numerous movies that I missed watching this year. For someone who supposedly really likes watching movies at the cinema, I really let myself down this year.Thank God for online movies cos I probably wouldn't be watching these movies if not for this great outlet of the Internet.

I signed up for the Golden Village Movie Club weeks ago but I missed them sending me the notification letter to go collect my members card.May have been in my junk email folder and I missed it. It has a couple of nice offers. Most certainly, the $6.50 price for movie tickets every Tuesday.

United won 4-0 today. Yay! Great for the youngsters Pique, Simpson & Anderson.

Oh, it's now Sunday, it's now 7th October so....I guess...

Happy 26th Birthday to my big sis...

I don't usually do this but this year I wish for her jewelry and 'other assorted prettylilthings', Ola Lola trinket stall to do great at the Geylang bazaar this year. Going good so far. Making 'mucho dinero' so far, so lets hope her and her friends make even more. It's a small operation but it's great in an entrepreneurial 'slogging-your-butts-off' kinda thing.

Oh, now that I'm reading again, I'm so tempted to go get that John Carbone book at Kino'. Maybe next month when my cheque rolls through.

Corporate Newbie

Right.

I've never worked before. Not even as a temp. That's just something about me. It's not that I'm rich in a way that I've never had to worry about working. Yes, my mom is a single working mother and I've got much respect for that. Our household gets by but we do allow ourselves little indulgences. I think we can manage it cos we're only extravagant on occasion and don't really tests the limits of our dollars.That's why I've never had to work. We're not poor, not rich but we do get by quite okay, like a lot of other people.

So, me talking about work may get others rolling their eyes and saying that they've been through worse many more times than me. Well, this is my experience and I'm talking about it. So there.

So, this past 6 days have been something of a first for me. What's I'm doing, I was told, isn't exactly entry level admin work. But, it's more like the not-so-nice tasks involved in a marketing campaign. Making nametags, typing out and pasting mailing labels, collating invitation packages.

They staff say that they work as a team. As a team, everybody does everything in a project. From the actual event to the mundane stuff like I'm doing.

For the past 6 days,I've been taking care of 180+ of these packages and it's easy but hard because of the sheer number of packages involved. I am, on my own for the whole thing for the most of it from start to finish. It's not difficult tasks but can get tiresome. I mean, I think it would be a lot more easier and less pressurising if there were two people doing it instead of it being just me.

Tomorrow's the last day. Which is kind of a relief. It's been a real eye-opener. But hey, it's hard to envision doing it every day if I come in at 9am and leave at 6pm, working continuously, leaving the room only to go pee or print something. Not much skill variety involved.

And today takes the cake.

In on of my years at Montfort, in one the classrooms, there was a kind of motivational poster, the kind you see at popular and it said, 'don't put off for tomorrow what you can do it today'. Something like that. I'd never thought I'd ever experience that or go through that cos at that time, I thought I'd was lame.

I left the office at 9pm, 3 hours after the time I'm supposed to go home.There were some last minute changes I had to do because of some updated list or something like that. I usually would have thought that I could do that tomorrow but this time I thought 'if I put this off for tomorrow, then I will have more work to come to the next morning and that won't be nice. still having so much to do. So I stayed back and finished up what I was supposed to. Tomorrow. I have another set of tasks and it would have an absolute downer if I had to go and finish backdated tasks before I could move on.

By 9pm, the staff were really insistent that I should bugger off and stop making them feel bad. Haha.

Are they paying me for the extra hours? I stayed back an hour last night as well. I don't know if they are. It would be nice but first and foremost I'm doing it to save my own ass. It is for my own benefit, if I didn't finish it, I'd have more to do the next day. I might as well finish it while I can instead of having it hang over me through the night, right?

It also helped that today was Tuesday and there was nothing good on TV that I would miss.

Except for now, it's not really TV but, now that I'm home, I can go catch the 3rd episode of Prison Break online. As I'm typing, I'm letting it load so that I can watch it without any buffering interruptions later on.

=)

On a random note,today, I broke fast with a tall-sized Caramel Hot Chocolate and Chewy Chocolate 'something-something' from Starbucks.

Cocoa overload.

United playing tonight in Champions League. They have this irritating tendency to play poorly or play out a boring game whenever I or others as well, expect an exciting game and get all psyched up. It's fine if I'm not doing anything the next day but it's damn annoying when you have school, work or even worse, an important test or something the next day.

I remember a year or two ago, when they had this game against a Czech team, Sparta Prague, I was all psyched about it, I went to 7-11 and stocked up on junk food and waited through the pre-match mumble at 2. It turned out to be the most mind-numbingly boring 0-0 draw game I had ever watched in recent history.

Doesn't anyone else I know watch Entourage? I'm looking for online posts of the episodes so I can watch ahead. Then again, it won't make Monday night so nice for me cos I always look forward to it 11pm on HBO.

If anyone does happen to watch it or turn to it when flipping channels, look out for the brunette, Emmanuelle Chriqui (pronounced 'shreeky') who I think is so delectably cuteeeeee! Check her out here on IMDB.com.

And bloody hell, the All-Blacks are bloody demons on the rugby field. It'll take quite a team to stop them this time round at World Cup.

Right, I have nothing else for and will scoot off somewhere else. Till next time then eh, lads?