K it's been 4 days since I played with the EOS 30D. I still want one. This means it's not a passing phase like the Xbox360 which I can do without. I have to get my hands on one.

Am going to faithful Alan Photo this weekend to try out the D50, EOS 30D and EOS 350D. Maybe they have the older EOS 20D on offer.

Argh. iSpendthrift.

I have a new love

and thy name is Canon EOS 30D. One of the choir peeps brought it to choir practice today, and from the moment my tubby fingers grasped its body, I was in love, and when the shutter went "tchak tchak" when I pressed the shutter button, it sent shivers up my spine. Oooooohhhh...

And from there I completely did not pay any attention for the rest of the practice (BAD BOY!) and was too engrossed in taking pics.

Oh my, its been ages since I felt like that for any piece of toy. But I think, I need one. NOW. The only question is...which Digital SLR....What about the Pentax DiST which sells for only $999? I don't really think I need a $2500 camera...but it feels so good.

Choir this weekend has been pretty fruitful and exciting, albeit tiring. First up, God (Mr. NK) is back and it shows. Like fatkiat says, we have been touched by the hand of K!!!

Second, Fatkiat has found his voice after 10 years singing in a choir!!! What an amazing transformation.

Wanted to work, but screw work I say, my personal life comes first.

These past 2 weeks have been hell work wise. Everyday I wish I were run over (in a minor way) by a car so that I'd be in hospital and be on MC. like you know. pass out. can't do work sort.

maybe I should just like do a mild overdose of sleeping pills. Where can I get me some sleeping pills....

I shall find a new job at the end of the year.

I want to quit my job.

i'm so happy i have to report that my aircon has been FIXED!!!!! all i had to do was open my big mouth!

for the first time in months i will be able to sleep without a bucket under the aircon!!!! and without drip drip drip in the background!!!

oh blessed is me!!!

Who would've thought I had a vain streak? I certainly didn't. Yet this morning, as I put the handsfree telephone set on my head, I took it off 'cos I "didn't want to mess up my hair". Then I thought, how silly is that??

Met up with some peeps for lunch. One was late, one just woke up, and one's batt was flat so I had no idea where she was. Boy was I in a foul-ish mood. But managed to stuff my face, so that passed.

I wanted to watch soccer tonight, but was too tired. Germany v Costa Rica has started by now, but since I'm at home and the knn maid is sleeping in the hall, I can't jolly well barge outside and start watching TV. I can't wait for my house to be built. Maybe I'll pay it a visit this weekend and see how my baby is coming along. It's taking forever to be born. Gah.

I finally managed to blurt out to my landlord that the aircon's leaking, after like 4 months of living in a room with a permanent bucket under the aircon. Nowadays it leaks like a bucket of water every 3 days. I can flush a toilet with it. I feel like I'm living in squalor. Maybe tt's why I can't wake up. Lousy sleep. The bed sux too. I am gonna buy myself a $3,000 mattress I swear.

Great Singapore Sale

is on. i have no time to visit the shops. The only thing I have bought on sale so far is like underwear. This is dismal.

Speaking of shopping. I am constantly amazed at how women can get so excited over shopping. Yesterday, over some beer, a friend was reading cosmopolitan while erm, us intellectual laolaos were discussing global warming. WITHOUT WARNING, she suddenly spasm-ed, and drew in a sharp breath / hiss, like how an invalid would try to stop himself drooling.

Asked the reason: "Oh, so many different and pretty and colourful clothes in the magazine!!!!"

Bewildered. I don't think guys even spasm at porn.

It's incredibly amazing that I, a "Laolao", at a grand 27 years of age, can be so incredibly childish.

Witness typical conversation online (completely fictional)

Me: Oi. iSians. How.

X: wat sians? TSK. Wahlau.

Me: Simi Tsk? stop tsk-ing me. uTsk.

X: simi uTsk? tsk.

Me: I wanna go homeeeeeeee gah.

X: go lah.

Me: too much workkkkkk argh argh gah. Bah. iBah. iSians. iGRUMPY.

X: Tsk.

Me: STOP TSK-ING ME. and stop flirting with ZZZ!!!!

X: Flirt simi flirt??? weFriends.

Me: yah right. you finger him

X: KNN!!!! wtf?!??

Me: yah! uFinger!

and then it goes on.

iChildish.

Urgh. I want to go home.

Though it's completely cool to have a 19" monitor, I can't help thinking that er it's a tad too big....like my eyes are lost.

Not all things good come in big sizes...

What a busy weekend it has been!!!! I need another weekend to recover from this weekend!

Fri evening I went out for beer and drinks with colleagues until about midnight. Came back and did laundry and slept at 2 am.

My boss was flying off on Sunday, so she wanted to see some drafts. So. Sat schedule:

Sat:
9 am: crawl to work
11.20 am: go to weekly gym class
1 pm: lunch
2 pm: boss trots in and discuss
2.50 pm: rush to sectionals
3 - 9.30 pm: Choir
9.30 - 11+ pm: drink teh halia and bitch hurhurhur
12 midnight - 2 am: iron clothes

Sun:
9 am - 10.30 am: eat breakfast + read papers like ah pek at friendly neighbourhood kopitiam.
10.20 am: cut hair. Done in 15 mins. looks bad. silently curse and promise i'll go somewhere else in future.
10.40 am: go PC Fair. It's damn crowde
1.40 pm: rush to sectionals
2 - 6 pm: choir
6 pm - 10 pm: snack, movie, post-movie snack
10.30 pm: reach home.

I'm damn tired!

PC fair was horrible. I dunno wat came over me. I feel like a tech shopaholic. I bought:

1. laptop
2. 19" LCD screen
3. wireless mouse
4. 100 GB external harddisk - dunno why i need this
5. 2 thumbdrives

Damage: S$1800. Thanks to trusty UOB card.

I swear if I had another hand, I would've bought that Xbox360 as well!!!! PC Fair is evil.

I dunno wat came over me. Mebbe this is how women are at the Great Singapore Sale. "I don't know what came over me! I just HAD to have that shoe!"

Anyway, I manage to pawn off the harddisk to Nelson Chua. yayyy.

Choir's making lots of progress which makes the long sessions more enjoyable. Have been whipping the tenors into shape, taking cues from the Sop SL, although i haven't found a sarcastic line worthy of mention yet. Still, the sat and sun practices will be quite exhausting.

The movie we watched was pretty good: Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles. Zhang Yimou's work, but I thought some of his other works were better. A lot of very simple but effective scenes, and lots of beautiful scenery.